Past Quotes

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

God never consults your past to make your future.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not, now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming aware!

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.