Past Quotes

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

Hope is such an important component to moving forward and getting past the difficult times.

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard.

My husband is the only guy I've ever dated where I've never been drunk around him. I couldn't handle dating without drinking in the past.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.

It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.