Past Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I haven't promised anything for the future. Instead, I have said what I would have done differently in the past.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

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.

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.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

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.

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

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.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered - every day I have to earn the right to be chosen.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.

Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.

I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.