Past Quotes

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

You can't let the past ruin your future.

Remembering the past gives power to the present.

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

Your past is not your potential.

DIE in the past. Live in the future.

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.