Past Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.

Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.

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

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.

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.

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.

If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Past glories are poor feeding.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

The past is our very being.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

The past is what you take with you.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

The worst time is always the present.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

The past has to inform the present...

You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.