Past Quotes

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

Your future does not equal your past. Tomorrow is full of possibility you can access right now

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.