Top 100 Quotes About Past
#1. The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.
Conan O'Brien
#2. The king who stepped into the ballroom wearing a green velvet robe and bejeweled crown was none other that the tiger-man who'd prowled through my nightmares and nearly every waking moment for the past two days. Chorda.
Kat Falls
#3. I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last
Shane MacGowan
#4. We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.
Graham Nash
#5. It was an aspiring neighbourhood that retained a faint edge of slum, typical of Shanghai. Pensioners in Mao-era padded jackets would sit on doorsteps playing mah-jong, oblivious to the Prada-clad girls sweeping past on their way to work.
Hyeonseo Lee
#7. Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros past
did and history have written their names in Gold
Ikechukwu Joseph
#8. As one becomes aware of the decline of violence, the world begins to look different. The past seems less innocent; the present less sinister.
Steven Pinker
#9. I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them ... on face value.
Shane Warne
#10. Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say ... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.
Claude Monet
#11. Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Honore De Balzac
#12. The deserts in which I have travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no known past.
Wilfred Thesiger
#13. Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
Pierre Trudeau
#14. In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.
Pete Wentz
#15. You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.
Will Oldham
#16. only joy in the doing of it, except for the one thing. The one consideration strong enough to outweigh Jamie's pride, loom larger than his sense of manhood, than his threatened soul's peace. Frank. That was the single idea that had driven me through this day, sustained me well past the
Diana Gabaldon
#17. In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
Beck
#18. It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
Judith Viorst
#19. the past is only the future with the lights on.
Blink-182
#20. to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to
Henry David Thoreau
#21. The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
Dante Alighieri
#22. Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.
Ian Gawler
#23. You cannot explain the past, even if it were the present.
Teresa Lakier
#24. My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
Zendaya
#25. They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
Isaac Asimov
#26. If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry.
Addis de Valence
Madeline Hunter
#27. The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.
E. Leo Foster
#28. The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#29. Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness.
Dan Pearce
#30. That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
Lawrence Hill
#31. It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.
Bryce Courtenay
#32. The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
John Welch
#33. As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.
Rohinton Mistry
#35. The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.
Shawn Colvin
#36. In the foyer an array of mailboxes lined one wall, and sliding heaps of flyers and takeout menus covered the rickety bench beneath them. Kate walked past several offices, but only the Christians for Buddha door stood open.
Anne Tyler
#37. I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I'm living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you'll look back and see how far you've come.
E.L. Montes
#38. No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.
Sarada Devi
#39. I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.
Tom Courtenay
#40. Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
George Eliot
#41. It was true what people said, that when one became old (and how sneakily that happened, how sly time was), memories of the long-ago past, repressed for decades, were suddenly bright and clear. A
Kate Morton
#43. Life is funny, and a lot of times, the people that I've met have really gone past anything that I've ever dreamed of, so I'm really grateful. My friendships really go from the West to the East. You'd be amazed at some of the people I call friends.
BeBe Winans
#44. One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.
Ronald Blythe
#45. We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
Norman Mailer
#46. Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults - wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.
Bruce Campbell
#48. My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Francis Herbert Hedge
#50. If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Roy Bennett
#51. 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.
Germaine Greer
#52. You are not in competition with anybody except yourself;plan to outdo your past not other people.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#53. Well, let me go and wake Soap."
"Oh, no need to disturb him."
"Course there's need. Why do you think I was set to watch the hatch? Waiting on the ghost of boilers past? He'll box my ears if I don't tell him you came.
Gail Carriger
#54. These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
#55. For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.
Fabio Capello
#56. It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
Eugene Jarecki
#57. As the past disappears, I keep getting lost.
Jan Wong
#58. When you are discovered by a householder - with revolver - in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted.
P.G. Wodehouse
#59. In the past two or three years, the number of clubs has doubled ... we've got close to 8 000 players, about 60 to 80 clubs. It's not restricted to the metros any more, it's gone rural.
Nasser Hussain
#60. I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all.
David Mackay
#61. I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing ... well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.
Mark Lanegan
#62. By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
Marianne Williamson
#63. Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.
Romesh Gunesekera
#64. As the two of us - past self, my present self - hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.
David Levithan
#65. God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
Bob Goff
#66. Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone's control.
Seneca.
#67. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.
V.S. Naipaul
#70. To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.
Konrad Adenauer
#71. The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding
Will Durant
#72. T just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.
Soheir Khashoggi
#73. I don't feel it is right that I'm playing knowing that I'm not 100% and I cannot currently operate at the level I have done in the past. My priority now is to take a break from cricket so that I can focus on my recovery
Jonathan Trott
#75. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
Piero Scaruffi
#76. Peace and rest at length have come
All the day's long toil is past,
And each heart is whispering, 'Home,
Home at last.
Thomas Hood
#77. Wrath to Butch : I always knew you were a royal; just didn't think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part is all.
J.R. Ward
#78. The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
Albert Einstein
#79. In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
Roberto Bolano
#80. Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content. In all, these past few weeks had been some of the most peaceable of her life. She had the sense of existing inside a fragile pause, a moment of grace.
Helene Wecker
#81. We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day.
Anne Frank
#82. The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.
Wallace D. Wattles
#83. Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#84. Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#85. I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
Kathryn Schulz
#86. Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
Fay Wray
#87. The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Will Durant
#88. I don't believe in vampires"
He opened his mouth to show her a vicious set of fangs.
"If you want to live past tonight, you better learn to start
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#89. Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.
Matthew Flaming
#90. The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.
Terry Gross
#91. No doubt you are right ... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men ... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#92. You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.
Cate Blanchett
#93. Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
Lion Feuchtwanger
#94. No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson ...
Charles Frazier
#95. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
Abraham Lincoln
#96. I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.
Brittany Murphy
#97. I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Kangana Ranaut
#98. Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused?
Lucretius
#99. Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
Martha Beck
#100. Maybe she was the lucky one, I thought, a woman
who had divested herself of both future and past. No dreams, no
standards, a woman who smoked and drank and slept with men like
Sergei, men who were spiritually what came up out of the sewers when
it rained.
Janet Fitch
