Past Quotes
Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.
I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.
The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.
I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.
If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.