Top 100 Happened In The Past Quotes
#1. When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.
Michel Houellebecq
#2. I hate all these crazy verbs, using a subjunctive to get what's happened in the future and the past mixed up.
Kerstin Gier
#3. He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.
Marcus Aurelius
#4. We have a history," I say, "that no one can take from us. No matter what happened in the past, no matter what happens from here, it can't take away from the good thing we had. You were my first love, Demi. You only get one.
Winter Renshaw
#5. to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past.
George Orwell
#6. What the hell is the matter with you?" My voice is low. I have to push the words out past the hard lump of anger in my throat. "I - I'm sorry," Alex whispers. He shakes his head. "I didn't mean ... I don't know what happened. I'm sorry, Lena." If
Lauren Oliver
#7. The worst thing that happened to air travel in the past ten years was the bankruptcy of Xhibit Corp., the parent company of SkyMall. I recalled with clarity the first time I boarded a flight and it was missing from all usual nooks and crannies. It had been a dark day.
L. H. Cosway
#8. I just want to live for the moment. Tomorrow's not important, next month is not important, what's happened in the past is not important. That is my journey.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
#9. I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.
Warren Buffett
#10. If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.
Louis L'Amour
#11. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment!
Debasish Mridha
#12. I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.
Chris Pine
#13. What's the best thing that happened to you in the past ten years?" I ask. "Seeing you again." Smiling, I push back against his chest. "Besides that." "Meeting you the first time.
Christina Baker Kline
#14. Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
Ellen Hopkins
#15. You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.
Drew Storen
#16. Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Eckhart Tolle
#17. Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.
Karen Salmansohn
#18. Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.
Maria V. Snyder
#19. Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
#20. History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
#21. When we don't throw ourselves completely into it and we hold back our best efforts because of what happened in the past, we are letting the past decide the future.
Rob Bell
#22. We didn't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in the past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
- John, I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore
#23. We're not going to think about what's happened in the past.
Blake Griffin
#24. One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
Graham Nash
#25. I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.
Sathya Sai Baba
#26. Everything in this town is retro, which accounts for the large supply of black vintage items in Accessories. The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread. She
Margaret Atwood
#27. Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
Patrick Kane
#28. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
#29. If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30)
Robert Whitaker
#30. History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.
Ludwig Von Mises
#31. Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
Bill Bruford
#32. The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
Bill Crawford
#33. I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.
Eva Longoria
#34. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.
Carrie Snyder
#35. History is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#36. Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.
Amalie Howard
#37. Life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up.
Lauren Groff
#38. If you became grateful, right now, for everything that ever happened in your past, how would that impact your view of the future?
Eric Edmeades
#39. We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
Pittacus Lore
#40. ... an implicit assumption is always: what will happen next already happened (exactly or approximately) in the past.
Henk W. Broer
#41. I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half ... although what's happened in the past has happened, I just want to ... be kind and loving and gentle and soft.
Justin Bieber
#42. If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.
Dorothy Rowe
#43. What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
David Rakoff
#44. The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
Joyce Meyer
#45. What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.
James A. Moore
#46. He gave a talk in which he argued that the way they measured risk was completely idiotic. They measured risk by volatility: how much a stock or bond happened to have jumped around in the past few years. Real risk was not volatility; real risk was stupid investment decisions.
Michael Lewis
#47. I don't know what happened in your past, what he did to you, how he hurt you, but I'm not that guy. The only thing I want from you is you. I would never use you, Clair. I can't make you trust me, but if you let me, I'll prove to you that you can. What good is life without taking a chance?
Loni Flowers
#48. There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.
Wayne Dyer
#49. as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath
Frank Herbert
#50. There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
Oprah Winfrey
#51. It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
Umberto Eco
#52. The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
Annie Lennox
#53. What happened in the past can't be changed, but it can be a guide for what happens in your future.
Maria V. Snyder
#54. Bitterness does not pay. Certain things have happened to all of us in the past and it is for us to forget those and to look to the future.
Susan Williams
#55. You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.
Chris Prentiss
#56. Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is permitted to grow old slowly. Nobody talks of the past, for fear their wounds might reopen. Privately though, their wounds never heal.
Cristina Garcia
#57. History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.
Johan Huizinga
#58. We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles.
Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna
#59. All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.
Kim Edwards
#60. Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem
#61. No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.
Jordan Belfort
#62. I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
Sebastian Vettel
#63. Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.
Jason Mraz
#64. I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
Nicole Kidman
#65. Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.
Louis L'Amour
#66. The enemy wants us unable to forget the terrible things that occurred in the past and instead remember them as though they happened yesterday. God has healing for upsetting memories.
Stormie O'martian
#67. Are you, are you happy?"
I am today," she said.
Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that crap about the past being over? The future hasn't happened, and today is forever? These aren't the kinds of statements that belonged beside question marks.
Stephanie Klein
#68. The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
Hulk Hogan
#69. Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.
Rebecca Serle
#70. In a world of shifting past, these memories are wheat in wind, fleet in dreams, shapes in clouds. Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened.
Alan Lightman
#71. All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.
Maeve Brennan
#72. Living it up to me meant getting drunk ... ; it meant losing myself in anything that could take the past away. I wanted to be numb; I wanted to never feel again. After all that had happened in the last couple years, I just wanted a way to forget it all.
Holly Hood
#73. We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Tom Wolfe
#74. Well you should care. About my past, I mean. Because who I am today is based on who I was, and what happened to me. You are in love with who you think I am, not the real me. Not the me who is broken inside.
Cindy Vine
#75. Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.
John Connolly
#76. I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#77. I don't have to ask to know that something bad happened in your past."
"Because I doona smile?"
Her smile was sad when her gaze met his. "It's your eyes. Your view of the world is colored."
"As is yours.
Donna Grant
#78. Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant ...
Alan Lightman
#79. I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.
Ellen Hopkins
#80. The past exists only in your
mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your
mind because it has not happened.
Scott Adams
#81. Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.
Carl Crawford
#82. While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
Kevin Spacey
#83. If you need me, just focus on us and I'll be here. Despite what happened with others in the past, I will show up.
Melyssa Winchester
#85. The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#86. Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. The
Eckhart Tolle
#88. That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
Murray Walker
#89. It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
Robert Breault
#90. Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
#91. Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can ... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
Thierry Henry
#92. The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
David Suzuki
#93. Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.
Michael Meade
#94. I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.
Mike Tomlin
#95. Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.
Nancy Werlin
#96. Look At How You Feel About What Happened In The Past. Learn Something Valuable From It. Use What You Have Learned To Make Your Work And Life More Enjoyable Today.
Spencer Johnson
#97. 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
#98. I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#99. Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact. She and Clifford lived in their ideas and his books. She entertained. there were always people in the house. Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven.
D.H. Lawrence
#100. I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.
Terrell Owens
