Past Quotes

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.

Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I've played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.

We've seen that in the past that where you've had uncertainty, and even where the Fed is raising rates, Treasurys rise as everybody heads for safety.

The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

I found out this summer how to hook up my Xbox 360 in the hotel and get past security. It took me a while to figure out, but I got it now.

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

In the past, hearing music had more value.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.