Past Quotes

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

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

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

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

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.

I have had situations in the past when you are close to signing a player and the money involved switches from euros to pounds to dollars. It is a difficult process, but one we have to work with.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

What is now in the past was once in the future

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations.

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

Don't live life in the past lane.

The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.