Past Quotes

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

I love 'Breathe' with Taylor (Swift) but I've been performing 'Lucky' with Jason (MRaz) all over the world in the past year so I'm glad that's what won.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

In the past I've been hard on the vegans. I've called them Prius-driving fascists, but now I am one of them. I have been turned to the dark side.

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

Pittsburgh has this rich industrial past, when it was the heart of the U.S. steel industry, and it burned out as the industry burned out and moved elsewhere.

I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

Hi, I'm a buck tooth and I like to be outside past the lips.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed in the past, then threw all that away once I started doing the role.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.