Past Quotes

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

Any damn fool can predict the past.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

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.

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.

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.

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

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

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

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.

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.

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

The past is a closed door.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

A lot of my work with the financial and helping my workers involves taking them back to their past life and helping them to understand this past.

And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

If you don't cherish past experiences, you cannot learn from them and you cannot move on.

We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.