Past Quotes

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.

It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.