Past Quotes

While you're busy chasing your dream, don't forget to leave time for living - it's way too easy to run straight past what's truly important.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.