Past Quotes

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

There ain't no future in the past.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

I look at the past and I see myself.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

I don't understand "The Little World of the Past" [a reference to the title of the book by Antonio Fogazzaro] that is destined to die.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Break through the bonds of your past.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that's really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.