Top 100 Past It Quotes
#1. At what point have you ever gotten the impression that there are good people in the royal cabal?"
"You've given me that impression. Yes. You have."
"Well, get past it. Because I'm not a good man. Not in the slightest. I just pay my debts.
Brian McClellan
#2. It's good to live in the past. It's sexier here
Tiffany Reisz
#3. When I thought of the past, it often seemed to me that all this was merely a horrible dream. My only desire was to forget everything, to think of nothing.
Miklos Nyiszli
#4. Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher)
You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. We cannot change or put right the past, it is our choice whether to be happy in this very moment. The present is all we have and problems only live in the past or the future.
Kate Skylark
#6. I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.
Lauren Faust
#7. 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
#8. How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
Augustine Of Hippo
#9. Never worry about the Past, it brings Tears.Don't think too much about the Future, it brings Fears. Live in the Present Moment with a smile it brings Cheers !! - RVM
R.v.m.
#10. In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#11. It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
Oscar Wilde
#12. I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
Sarah McLachlan
#13. While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.
K.A. Robinson
#14. Embrace your past. It's your greatest teacher. When you learn and apply those lessons than it no longer defines your future.
Sarah Centrella
#15. So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
A. B. Yehoshua
#16. 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
#17. Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.
Marcia Whicker
#18. Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.
Bryant McGill
#19. My position was simple, really. I didn't care about her past. It changed nothing in my feelings for her. She was the one-the one person I needed to be with. Now it was just a matter of convincing her of this fact. And I will ... because I love her.
Raine Miller
#20. Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#21. The past is haunting us. In Queens, in Manhattan, it is shadowing us, punching us in the stomach. I am small, and my father is big. But the Past - it is the biggest.
Gary Shteyngart
#23. It's an important moment. I just feel like I want it to happen tonight, either for myself or Viola [Davis] so we can get past it, so it's not big news anymore. I mean, it is 2015. We have a black president.
Taraji P. Henson
#24. 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
#25. You have your whole life ahead of you," my mother told me, "don't spend all your time in the past." It's good advice, I know it is, but the past has its own ideas. It can follow you around with a life of its own, casting a long shadow.
Gregory Galloway
#26. You won't let anything bad happen to me, will you, Garrett?"
A lump the size of Massachusetts lodges in my throat. I swallow hard and try to speak past it.
"Never.
Elle Kennedy
#27. I looked up from the street and again at the wretched captives. I vowed not to let the noises of the city drown out their voices or rob me of my past. It was less painful to forget, but I would look and I would remember.
Lawrence Hill
#28. You can't change the past. It's already done. Looking back only keeps you there.
Donna Grant
#29. In reality, it's not that I don't care about your past. It's just that compared to your past, it's the present you, standing next to me, who's most important.
Kou Matsuzuki
#30. I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.
Suzanne Palmieri
#31. As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
Dorothea Dix
#32. Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two in my past, it seemed that a book was the only thing that stood between me and near insanity.
Lisa Kleypas
#33. I know. But guess what? You have to get through it to get past it. There's no bridge over it.
Kim Hunt Harris
#34. Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#35. 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
#36. As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I'm repeating something in the past, it feels like I'm experiencing something that will happen in my future...It's like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.
Nicola Yoon
#37. In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.
Gichin Funakoshi
#38. Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
Leslie Jamison
#39. Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#40. I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins
#41. I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy
George Clooney
#42. Take your thoughts off.
The invading
thoughts you have. Push them aside. See your future in a
bright way. Don't struggle with the past. It is gone. Look
for the future. Look for the future.
Sandra Harner
#43. Our past is a fictional representation, and the only thing we can be even somewhat sure of is what is happening now. It encourages us to live in the moment and not to place too much importance on our past. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives, and our memory, is right now. And
Julia Shaw
#44. If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#45. Because when all you have is the past, it's hard to let it go.
Lisa Mangum
#46. Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
David Brin
#47. If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
Karl Lagerfeld
#48. It's not a house to us. It's a home. And it's not a home, it's s way of life. Our summertime happens here. This house is part of our past, it's our present, it'll be our future. It's who we are.
Elin Hilderbrand
#49. It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.
Holly Black
#50. Forgiveness is a very abstract term. It doesn't erase the past. It's not a magical switch you can flip or a stained rug you can just turn over. It's merely a scar that covers the deep, dark gash that hate carved in your soul.
Aly Martinez
#51. A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#52. No sense in worrying about the past. It's not going to worry about you.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#53. Neil had spent his entire life drifting by on the outskirts, looked over and looked past. It'd made him happy, or so he'd thought, because being ignored meant he was safe. He hadn't realized how lonely he was until he met the Foxes.
Nora Sakavic
#54. The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores.
Andrew Solomon
#55. Everything that happened in the past It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.
Anita Stansfield
#56. If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere."
"That's where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.
Mary E. Pearson
#57. When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.
Robert Greene
#58. The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
Bruce Springsteen
#59. APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Edsger Dijkstra
#60. You don't forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be
Jessica Sorensen
#61. I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.
Daniel Radcliffe
#62. I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.
Kristen Stewart
#63. There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
Terry Pratchett
#64. We all have a past it is how we deal with it to find a better future
Chris Dyer
#65. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.
Hans Von Storch
#67. Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your neighbor's or your wife's or you boyfriend's-your decisions determine your karma.
Lucie Smoker
#68. You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
John Green
#69. Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
Rick Warren
#70. In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.
Evgeny Morozov
#72. Don't regret your past ... It has shaped you. Don't fear your future ... It is yours to shape.
Louise Hansen
#73. One thing about the past. It's likely to last.
Ogden Nash
#74. In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
Mika.
#76. if you paid enough attention to your past, it would grow and grow, obscure your present as well as your future.
Aline Ohanesian
#77. Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.
You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.
Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.
Patrick Ness
#78. The past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.
Lauren Oliver
#79. I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.
Ann Nocenti
#80. I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
Jeff Tweedy
#81. Moving on is not about forgetting the past; it's about learning from it. Find the message in the mess ... Cry. Forgive. Learn. That's moving on.
Steve Maraboli
#82. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother...When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.
Anna Quindlen
#83. It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.
Desiree Rogers
#84. As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.
Stephen Richards
#85. Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. ... It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.
Joan D. Chittister
#87. The thing about your past ... it never stays there. We just think it does until the time comes for it to reveal itself in all its gory shame. And there's nothing, absolutely nothing a person can do, but watch
Rachel Van Dyken
#88. On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.
Samantha Power
#89. The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.
Steven Pinker
#90. The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.
Katherine Reay
#91. Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future
if mankind is to have a future
Ayn Rand
#92. Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#93. The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
Stephen Baxter
#94. An origin, I repeat, is not confined to the past: it is a whirlwind, in Benjamin's very fine image, a chasm in the present. And we are drawn into this abyss. That is why the present is, par excellence, the thing that is left unlived.
Anonymous
#95. If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
Ai Weiwei
#96. What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.
Rebecca Solnit
#97. Sometimes it's just a zen thing and it means shutting the noise out and forming a plan and realizing that as long as it's not going to kill you then you just need to breathe and move past it,
Chuck Wendig
#98. If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.
Winston Churchill
#99. The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?
Sara Sheridan
#100. Fear is afraid of you. Don't think so? Walk right up to it, then right past it and see if it doesn't run and hide.
Toni Sorenson
