Past Quotes

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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

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

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.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you!

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.

Believe in your potential, not your past.

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

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.

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.

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

The past cannot be allowed to repeat itself.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

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

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

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.

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

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.

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

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

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

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

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.

The past is solid, the future is liquid.

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.