Past Quotes

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

The things we are attached to are no more than shadows of the past.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.