Past Quotes

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past. He's prophesying our future.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.

Everything that happened in the past "It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

Figure out where you are on the field. If you're past 15 or so yards, the ball is going down the field. When you're in great position, you're able to control the receiver.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.