Past Quotes

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

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't let your past dictate your future.

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

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.

The past is just something that's over.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

One is always at home in one's past.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

Learn your past, find your path.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past

There's no sustenance in the past.

Build on past successes, be grateful for what you do have, and know that this, too, shall pass. It's only for the now. Whatever we're facing, it's not forever.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.