Past Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

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 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.

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 present is the past biting into 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.

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.

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

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

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.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

Past art is subject to change.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.