Past Quotes

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

The Warrior remembers the past.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

Live in the present as if the future is going to become the past that you have changed.

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

My dancing days are past.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

The future struggles that it may not become the past.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.