Past Quotes

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires!

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus.

I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.

Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.

God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.

What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

Never rest on past success. Create something better.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.