Past Quotes

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.

Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too.

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure.

Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!

Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!

For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!

It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past!

When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.

You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.

I believe my past is my strength.

You are not your past.

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

Passion has determined our past. Attitude will determine our future.

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

We don't have to be defined by the things that we did or didn't do in our past- Four

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.