Past Quotes

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.

The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.

The Democrats of today, they don't care about the past, other than look at aspects of it they hate.

How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker.

They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.

We are past opposition. I mean, we've crossed that threshold before [Donald] Trump was inaugurated.

The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."

Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

I'm so afraid to love you, But more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

I do think a lot about the past.

I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.