Past Quotes

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

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

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

Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.

Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

The older you get the more you live in the past

You have to let go of the past to have a better future, and you do that through love and family.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.

Sometimes I do it more literally, sometimes I do a little softer [interpretation], but I'm just inspired by the past.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.