Top 100 From The Past Quotes
#1. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.
Alice Sebold
#2. I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.
Alber Elbaz
#3. Learn from the past, enjoy the now, and prepare for the future.
Kailin Gow
#5. To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.
Susan Sontag
#6. Lingering flashes from the past are the moments you truly lived and want to live again.
Moonish Sood
#7. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
Margaret Mead
#8. It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.
Richard Paul Evans
#9. An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
Jack Kornfield
#10. 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.
Chester Brown
#11. Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?
Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.
Haruki Murakami
#12. It Is Hard To Let Go Of The Past If You Have Not Learned From The Past. As Soon As You Learn And Let Go, You Improve The Present Today.
Spencer Johnson
#13. He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.
Hugh Howey
#14. I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.
Danny Masterson
#15. The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
Jeanette Winterson
#16. Sometimes, when we don't learn a lesson in life, it pops up repeatedly until we do. Might this person be giving you an opportunity to learn an unlearned lesson from the past? What lesson(s) might that be?
Liisa Kyle
#17. The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#18. The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.
Arthur Koestler
#19. I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.
Colin Firth
#20. Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.
Chris Hedges
#22. Nico di Angelo has warned them: the House of Hades would stir their worst memories, make them see things and hear things from the past Their ghosts would become restless.
Rick Riordan
#23. That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
Connie Willis
#24. Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.
Michael Nesmith
#25. ...we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.
Jeffrey J. Kripal
#26. Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
Frederick Dodson
#27. There's no sense in running from the past. We can't throw it away or pretend it didn't happen, Miss Echohawk. But maybe we can learn something from it. You have an interesting story, and I'd like you to tell me more.
Amy Harmon
#28. Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
Orrin Woodward
#29. Assertions that the modern homosexual and modern gay subculture are significantly different from the past are based primarily upon ignorance of that past.
Rictor Norton
#30. While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
#31. You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Andy Griffith
#32. Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.
Toshihiko Fukui
#33. Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left that station
Or who will arrive at any terminus,
While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
T. S. Eliot
#34. Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.
Orrin Woodward
#35. Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#36. Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo.
Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.
Rajneesh
#37. I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.
Richard Holbrooke
#38. The past makes a good bishop but a poor king ... it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.
Richard Paul Evans
#39. Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#40. Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
Brian Tracy
#41. I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.
Carolina Herrera
#42. We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
#43. Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.
Louise L. Hay
#44. Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.
Frederick Lenz
#45. In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#46. I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.
Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
#48. Recent generations seem to consider 'old-fashioned' thinking as out-dated and without place in the modern world. I beg to differ. After all, who has greater faith? He who looks to and learns from the past, or the man who cares not for consequence?
Fennel Hudson
#49. We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.
Edwidge Danticat
#50. Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future.
Sean Best
#51. This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the future, creating an interlacing pattern, a grand design, a repeating motif. Don't dismiss myth, boy. And never, ever, dismiss the Bookman
Lavie Tidhar
#52. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Leila Sales
#53. It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it.
Tony Curl
#54. A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney J. Harris
#55. In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#56. I don't view myself from the past present or future tense i like to think of the world from my own personal point of view at whatever time i feel that is relayed to me in conjunction with my well being to progressively grow successfully finacially as well as mentally.
Riff Raff
#57. We should not regret our mistakes from the past and think about possible opportunities for our future.
Saaif Alam
#58. My heart shattered. 'The boy that you keep painting - the one at the warehouse and at the art gallery? That boy is you, isn't it?'
Rider didn't say anything.
'It's not you from the past,' I whispered. His handsome face blurred. 'That's still who you are.'
He closed his eyes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#60. Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.
Bob Dylan
#61. I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past - the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers - or from the future - the possibilities we would be switching off.
Matt Haig
#62. Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.
Woody Allen
#63. Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
Bob Harper
#64. you simply need to unchain yourself from the past. Then you may find that you have all the power that you need once the past has been released. To let go of the past may be the most meaningful action you will ever take.
Max Strom
#65. But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
Ellen Glasgow
#66. Mistakes from the past can never be repaired. Do your best in the present, to be a good person in the future.
Sylvia L'Namira
#67. Learn from the past.
Act in the present.
Live for the future.
Myself
#68. 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.
Deepak Chopra
#69. How foolish we are to keep repeating the negative memories from the past in our minds, while rarely thinking of the good times, nor being thankful for what we have. Be good to yourself and repeat and focus on the positive.
Maddy Malhotra
#70. If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
Fareed Zakaria
#71. But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#72. He'd left for a reason, and I didn't want to be anyone's blast from the past. Still, not knowing was worse than any potential awkwardness.
Ilona Andrews
#74. Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.
Ali Akbar Khan
#75. Now when the flowers are in full bloom,
It is the ashes from the past that hidden loom.
Selina A. Mahmood
#76. People from the past belong to the past not to the place which you're heading
Michelle S.
#77. If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .
Pete Docter
#78. There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.
James Rozoff
#79. Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'
Mark Williams
#80. Look, when you get your memory back and can divulge all your secrets from the past, we'll have a sleepover and I'll tell you everything; but, as far as I'm concerned, until that day arrives, we both have amnesia.
Tarryn Fisher
#81. History does not repeat itself. It is men who never learned from the past who repeat history.
Rei Lemuel Crizaldo
#82. It's - it's a variable." Kaplan was shaking, white-lipped and pale. "Something from which no inference can be made. The man from the past. The machines can't deal with him. The variable man!
Philip K. Dick
#83. I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.
Elton John
#84. Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.
Anna Akhmatova
#85. Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into its orbit the mysterious agency of artifacts, space and non-humans from the past.
Tim Edensor
#86. I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?
Laurie Simmons
#87. Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.
Pope Francis
#88. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
Paul Arden
#89. One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.
George Fernandes
#90. To cherish and learn from the past is to enrich our lives.
Fennel Hudson
#91. And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."
Edward Hirsch
#92. That might be the problem. A lot of the good stuff is from the past. The Jonas Brothers, High School Musical, our shared grief. Our friendship is based on memories. What do we have now?
Angie Thomas
#93. We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.
Heinz Fischer
#94. Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.
Romesh Gunesekera
#95. To learn from the past is good, but to live there is a waste. To plan for the future is good, but to live there is a waste. You are happiest and most productive in life when you are living in the present.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#96. You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
Bram Stoker
#97. Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.
Wayne Shorter
#98. The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.
H.G.Wells
#99. You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.
Bruce Springsteen
#100. Love is not the hurt from the past. Love is today. Love is patient enough to wait for the future to heal us.
C.H. Carter
