Past Quotes

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.

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

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player

I've owned mopeds in the past.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles.

Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

The past is solid, the future is liquid.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

You have to let go of the past to have a better future, and you do that through love and family.

I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.

When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.