Past Quotes

It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.

The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.

Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind.

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.