Past Quotes

Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!

Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little.

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

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.

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.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

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 Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.