Past Quotes

Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

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.

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

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.

The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

As I've said before and I've said it in the past.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.

The longest journeyIs the journey inwards.Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being.