Past Quotes

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

We read the future by the past.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

Thats the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

The past can be changed by the future.

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.

In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.