Past Quotes

Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

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.

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

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past.

What are memories but dreams of a better past.

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

You don’t forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.