Past Quotes

Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

I feel like Im able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen

I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

I don't want your future, I don't need your past. One bright moment Is all I ask.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.