Past Quotes

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?

The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.