Past Quotes

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

The past is just something that's over.

I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

Don't let your past dictate your future.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

The past is getting clearer and clearer

If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.