Past Quotes

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.

Laugh about the past and dream about the future.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

Charts are great for predicting the past.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

We don't let the past determine the future unless we allow it too.

I don't live in the past.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

I think we agree, THE PAST IS OVER.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.