Past Quotes

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.

The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.