Past Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.

What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.

I don't care about the past.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

Dear Marco, how do i unwrite the past, how do i undo the mistakes, how do i unlove you?