Past Quotes

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.

We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.

The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

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.

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.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

I don't believe in yesterday.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

That was a sarcastic remark pointing out that Bill Clinton has, quite a past, and Hillary Clinton has done quite a job on attacking the people who were victims of Bill Clinton.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.