Past Quotes

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

I feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't me there wouldn't be a reaction.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

I'm a footballer, I don't think past next Saturday.

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.

My world got very big, very fast, and based on a lot of sad examples from the past, a lot of people expect me to get lost in it

The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back.

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

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 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.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

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

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

My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.

How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into 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.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.