Past Does Not Change Quotes

#1. History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of the past and finds new areas of sympathy as it re-lives different aspects of the experiences of its predecessors.

Christopher Hill

#2. I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

Charles Van Doren

#3. Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Robin Hobb

#4. Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Lewis B. Smedes

#5. Now here is the real beauty of Beliefs...You can change them. Have you heard the statement "The past does not equal the future"?

E.K. Santo

#6. Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

Robert Richardson

#7. People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Jonathan Evison

#8. Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris

#9. Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it ...

Zhuangzi

#10. I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!

Kim Yannayon

#11. It can bring on heavy sadness and sharp despair and it does not change the past.

Cathy Lamb

#12. Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive?

Maddy Malhotra

#13. Today, far continents have become suburbs. Even the moon has somehow come closer. But for all that, the past has not lost its power, and if within a lifetime a man changes his skin an infinite number of times--almost as often as his suits--still he does not change his heart: he has but one.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#14. I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

Elise Andrew

#15. Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

Christiana Figueres

#16. Like waves, men and women exist only in motion, in change. Put them on the page, and you have already failed. And

Brian Staveley

#17. Some questions change everything.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Anne Frank

#19. I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

William, Saroyan

#20. The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by reading a complicated book or watching a film you again change... It's a fact!

Deyth Banger

#21. Human-nature will not change.

Abraham Lincoln

#22. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Paul Kantner