Past Quotes
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.
Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.
Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.
Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
