Past Quotes

I have a sordid past.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

I want to play the regular guy who's had a bit of a jaded past or a bit of a tortured soul because I think they're interesting.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

I believe we're past the point where the government or the private sector can solve all problems, it's all about partnerships.

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

We will certainly be focused on making sure that the prosperity we have been able to accomplish in the past 8 years under the leadership of Mr. [Barack] Obama, continues.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, look at your thoughts today.

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.

The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.