Past Quotes

We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

The past is only the future with the lights on

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.