Past Quotes

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?

I refuse to let the past find me here.

Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.

Because when all you have is the past, it's hard to let it go.

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

(Andy Roddick's) a different kind of guy. I don't spend a lot of time with him. His coach in the past (Tarik Benhabiles), I didn't have a lot of time for at all. He was a bigger problem than Andy.

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity to outgrow the effects of the past. We can change. We can be free.

Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.

I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.

I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with and they've let me do more and more.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily.