Past Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

In years past, to keep their men close, women would wear a ring and bear children. It doesn't work like that today. Nowadays, how do we hold on to those we love? I've no idea.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

For me, I make a schedule and I pass the time. I don't think about the transformation. When my schedule says I'm finished on this day, I put it in the past and go toward my future.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

Our future depends on how we understand the past.

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.

Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.