Quotes About That Past

#1. There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

Eric Thomas

#2. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

#4. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

Margaret Mead

#6. It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

Ashley Newell

#7. With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.

M. C. Gainey

#8. I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

Robert Fulghum

#9. It reminded him of the truth - who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.

Kayla Krantz

#10. And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Peter Matthiessen

#11. U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.

Apolo Ohno

#12. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.

C.A. Woolf

#13. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.

Deb Brammer

#14. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Robert W. Service

#15. The Green Arrow stuff that I've responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I've liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action.

Jeff Lemire

#16. I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives

Frank Healy

#17. That's the past. I have even less power to change it now than I did to stop it then.

Jessie G.

#18. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.

Deepak Chopra

#19. Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

Tryon Edwards

#20. The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.

Aliya Whiteley

#21. A nation that forgets its past has no future

Sir Winston Churchill

#22. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#23. This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.

Joseph Conrad

#24. Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

Dara Horn

#25. Besides music and charity, fashion is one of my interests that has been growing over the past few years. I think it goes so hand in hand, music and fashion.

Tiesto

#26. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

Jimmy Carter

#27. As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Susan Sontag

#28. I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.

Andrew Schneider

#29. Sudden falls can come to societies that know too little history or that have furnished their minds with easy one-note propaganda in place of the true complexity and terrible beauty of the storied past.

Dean Koontz

#30. I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

Jerry Falwell

#31. A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

Peter Dicken

#32. That's when I realized that part of me would probably always be lost in the past. That just seemed to be my personality: I was the one who couldn't stand change.

Beth Harbison

#33. But for the love of piss, make some sort of decision. If you don't want to eat babies and nail bloodbags to walls, that's your choice. What Sarren did or made you do in the past has nothing to do with it now. You're a vampire. Do whatever the hell you want.

Julie Kagawa

#34. And here I sit, writing about him as though he's just a ghost from my past that still haunts me. And I guess that is all he is now. Just some guy I used to know.

Dawn Kurtagich

#35. 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

#36. I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Mariah Carey

#37. I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Lou Reed

#38. The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

#39. history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains

Philip Parker

#40. You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions.

Violetta Botzet Luetgers

#41. Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.

Bobcat Goldthwait

#42. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.

Sloan Wilson

#43. Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

Marilynne Robinson

#44. Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.

Etienne Gilson

#45. I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

Rose Schneiderman

#46. Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#47. The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face.

Douglas Booth

#48. History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.

Penelope Lively

#49. You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only the present.

Paulo Coelho

#50. Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you ... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

Stephen Sondheim

#51. And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.

Louise Rennison

#52. To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.

Frederick Lenz

#53. Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles Dudley Warner

#54. We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.

Jay Park

#55. Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.

Cassandra Clare

#56. If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

Billy Joel

#57. Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

Barry Ritholtz

#58. Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

Antony Gormley

#59. Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Anne Michaels

#60. I WAS DONE. No. That wasn't quite right. I was a hundred miles past done, cresting into the Fjords of Nope, heading for Fuck-That-Ville.

Seanan McGuire

#61. I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

Bill Kurtis

#62. How does one know that, before the first hello? It's a heaviness in the air combined with a lightness of step. It's a slowing down of the past, and a speeding up of the future.

Melanie Benjamin

#63. If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.

Fred Bodsworth

#64. It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.

Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

#65. The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

James Hutton

#66. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading
that is a good life. A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one. But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's?

Annie Dillard

#67. Resentment, the emotion that, Jane Amery would write, 'nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.'

Laura Hillenbrand

#68. In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Jo Coudert

#69. It's what we do in our future, that decides how important our past truly was.

Mona Hodgson

#70. I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

Shannon A. Thompson

#71. Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Matteo Renzi

#72. That is who I was yesterday. Today I walk with God.

Shannon L. Alder

#73. Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

Rufus Sewell

#74. I know that if I am to move forward like the professional that I am, I must first see the past with mature eyes. And that means acknowledging that others have caused all my problems and blaming them for it.

Stephan Pastis

#75. Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it's easy.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#76. Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.

Carl Sagan

#77. If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

Myles Munroe

#78. It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

George Santayana

#79. You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

Jordan Belfort

#80. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

Daniel D. Palmer

#81. 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

#82. Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been.

Sasha Grey

#83. Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Paule Marshall

#84. Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can't let go of the past.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#85. The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.

Hans Reichenbach

#86. I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.

Liz Williams

#87. As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.

Deepak Chopra

#88. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.

Jane Roberts

#89. Let go of the past.
Open to forever.
Hearts can heal.
Inside them is that which can never be broken.

Edward Fahey

#90. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

Janet Morris

#91. The past is important. It is the past that helps make us who we are.

Elizabeth Morgan

#92. It is only with hindsight that we can see the paradigms of the past for the intellectual straitjackets they were.

Terryl L. Givens

#93. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

#94. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

#95. And I walked across the room past all that was missing, through the door, and into the light that shone like a sweet wide smile over all that was actually there.

Sarah Weeks

#96. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Robert M. Pirsig

#97. What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past,

Barbara Kingsolver

#98. We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

Derek Walcott

#99. When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

Debbie Ford

#100. As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future.

Marcel Proust