Past Quotes

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.

‎The past is always an invented land.

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air.

Well, as much as I love kicking asses and taking names, it's way past curfew for you three"- Arriane

I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

The past is where its supposed to be.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.