Past Quotes
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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.
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.
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
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.
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.
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
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 come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.
There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.
But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
I don't look at myself in the mirror. I'll flash past a mirror in the morning to check how I'm dressed, that's it.
