Past Quotes

If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

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

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

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

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 repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

Germany's like Wisconsin, but with, like, a really bad past.

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

We can't start dividing people up into categories. In the past, France has often committed the error of not speaking to everybody because there was a belief that some countries could be neglected.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.