Past Quotes

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

The present is the past biting into the future.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

The past, the future: - two eternities!

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

Interesting people always have a past.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

Britney Spears is definitely my favorite past Candie's girl; her campaigns were gorgeous.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."