Past Quotes

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.

I love exploring the past lives, just because I think it adds so much dimension to a personality.

You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.

Whatever happened yesterday was the past.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.

I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding.

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons

One day offices will be a thing of the past

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

You can't have a better past.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.

In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles.

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.