Past Quotes

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

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.

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

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.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

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 age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Our past has gone into history.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

There's a bridge to tomorrow, There's a bridge to the past.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.