Past Quotes
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.
Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.
Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.
We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.
The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.
There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
Don't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.
Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.
What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness
There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.
You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling
We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.
There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.