Past Quotes

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

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

The present necessarily betrays the past.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

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

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

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

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.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

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 sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.

Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

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

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

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.