Past Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.

Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?