Past Quotes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.

The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.

I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

I would say that in the past year I have had to begrudgingly admit that I am finally a success of some level, sure.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

Most politicians have to find a way past that allergy. They have to find a way to go door to door, person to person, or else they don't win.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.