Past Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Break through the bonds of your past.

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.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

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

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.

I look at the past and I see myself.

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

There ain't no future in the past.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.