Past Quotes

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.

We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with

I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past.

I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

Remember that everyone you see and every situation you find yourself in has come from inside of you; you have created your reality by how you have treated others in your past.

The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it’s making peace with yourself.

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment.

I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.

God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I know I'm not. If I could sing, I would be the happiest person on Earth.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.

It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

Last Christmas someone stole my present. I've spent this year living in the past.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute