Past Quotes

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future.

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future.

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.