Past Quotes

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

I play chess, but my past is checkered, The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Without a past you can't have a future.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.