Past Quotes

My country has no history, only a past.

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

I want a woman to walk past and say, "I would love to be in a picture with him."

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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 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.

No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

The past is solid, the future is liquid.

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

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

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

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

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.