Past Quotes

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.

I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.

When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.

I just drove past Brad Paisley jogging down the side of the road. I rolled down the window and screamed RUN FORREST RUN. I live for….. little moments…..like that.

In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.

A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

Man just went past with a cat on his head.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get rid of Apartheid and the struggle to establish democracy.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

I take references from the past and flip them.

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.