Top 100 Quotes About The Past
#1. The past needs the present and grows the future.
N.M. Singel
#2. For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Ben Elton
#3. When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.
Alycia Debnam Carey
#4. I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.
Brigitte Bardot
#5. It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.
Georgi Vladimov
#6. Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.
Salar Kamangar
#7. Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
Richard Rogers
#8. The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
Alan Moore
#9. I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.
Iyanla Vanzant
#10. I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
Tadao Ando
#11. I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
Nick Hornby
#12. Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.
Gary Carter
#13. We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
Nancy Pelosi
#14. The past no longer exists, and the future does not yet exist," Morik reasoned. "So live in the present and enjoy it, my friend. Enjoy every moment.
R.A. Salvatore
#15. The past became a long, razor-sharp skewer that stabbed right through his heart.
Haruki Murakami
#16. Neither man spoke of the past. Darcy could not rid himself of its power but Wickham lived for the moment, was sanguine about the future and reinvented the past to suit his audience, and Darcy could almost believe that, for the present, he had put the worst of it completely out of his mind. p.172
P.D. James
#17. In the past 10 years, Czechs filed 1211 applications to the European Patent Office, while Austrians filed about 15,000, the Dutch 66,000 and the Germans 256,000,
Anonymous
#18. I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
Avicii
#19. The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible ... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag
#20. Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.
Augustine Of Hippo
#21. It's a problem because I'm consumed with you, Trace. Are you hungry? How are classes? Do you need your space? Are you scared? Can you shoot a gun? Shit. I can't even sleep at night because Im so terrified, and I've literally been sharing a bed with you for the past two weeks.
Rachel Van Dyken
#22. But you have to let go of the past first or you won't believe a word she says.
Brenda Novak
#23. Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.
F. Sionil Jose
#24. It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
William H Gass
#25. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Alan Lightman
#26. I've set the intention that all who ask to receive attunements from me receive them perfectly and instantly the moment they call them in regardless if the attunement is prepared in the past, present or future and regardless of who the recipient is.
Chris Comish
#27. blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables.
Greg Iles
#28. I buried the past in a shallow, unmarked grave but it does not rest in peace. It demands to be named and honored.
D.C. Hubbard
#29. Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.
Louise Hay
#30. Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place.
"The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.
Alan Moore
#31. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.
Francois Lelord
#32. True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.
Martin Buber
#33. The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
Cassius Jackson Keyser
#34. Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.
Chuck Palahniuk
#35. To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley
#36. Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
Michael Bassey
#37. A thousand regrets I've had in love,
A thousand times I've longed to change the past.
I know, my love, there is no going back.
No undoing of our thousand burdens.
We must go on despite our heavy hearts.
A thousand regrets I've had in love, but I shall never regret you.
Rachel Hartman
#38. Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
John Rzeznik
#39. I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
Ellen Goodman
#40. Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.
Felicia Hemans
#41. It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#42. There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
Mary Balogh
#43. Although we cannot change the past, we can stake our claim on it and make it ours. We can know for ourselves where we have been and use that wisdom to build our future.
Ashley Warner
#44. What's down below is in the past
Like last night's crickets, far below.
Wallace Stevens
#45. The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.
Sidney Sheldon
#46. We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
Laurie Anderson
#47. I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.
Margaret Atwood
#49. All over the world ... the past was being wiped out by condominiums.
Elmore Leonard
#50. It was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.
Louise Penny
#51. Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.
L.R. Knost
#52. Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Frances Beinecke
#53. On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken.
Lauren Groff
#54. Because you've put the past behind you and it doesn't bother you anymore that she
Ruth Cardello
#55. Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.
Deepak Chopra
#56. I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?
Isabel Allende
#58. The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time
for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
C.S. Lewis
#59. The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.
Steven Pressfield
#60. The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter L. Berger
#62. When life is empty, with respect to the past, and aimless, with respect to the future, the vacuum is filled by the present - normally reduced to a hairline, a split second in which there is no time for anything to happen.
Alan W. Watts
#63. Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.
Louis Leakey
#64. It's like saying you're fixed in the past, and
you're running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of
something new
Priscille Sibley
#65. Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#66. At the summit, there are statues illustrating pilgrims from the past. Often there is an Englishman here; he spends his summers helping pilgrims. He sells cans of soft drinks and gives away tea; he also has some basic medical supplies to help pilgrims suffering from blisters. The
Leslie Gilmour
#67. I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.
Mario Lemieux
#68. Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.
Aleatha Romig
#69. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another.
Virginia Woolf
#71. The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.
Madeline Claire Franklin
#72. We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.
P.D. James
#73. The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its
cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We
pay for every change we make ... and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to
change.
Brian Herbert
#74. One should not forget the sins of their forebears, but nor can one advance by paying witness only to the failings of the past. To bury the past is to progress, and only in breaking the chains that bind can you escape the prison your predecessors have laid.
Scott Warren
#75. Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future.
Auliq Ice
#76. The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.
Joe Abercrombie
#77. Why dwell on the past, when we have yet to write the future
P.A. Henley
#78. This isn't the obnoxious jock from the past year. It's not even the timid, but smart boy from before that. This is a much, much more dangerous version of Rob Falls...sweet, thoughtful, vulnerable, and honest.
Kata Cuic
#79. There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.
Scarlett Johansson
#80. History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.
Ken Loach
#81. Suppose we took a thousand negatives ...
combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
Berenice Abbott
#82. Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
John Berger
#84. I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.
Bruce Pavitt
#85. When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
Eckhart Tolle
#86. A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#87. As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future ... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
Feist
#88. The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
Susanna Kearsley
#89. squeezed the present for all it was worth. He believed meaning is found only in the present, for the past is gone and the future looms indeterminate if it arrives at all.
William Manchester
#91. I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.
Nic Pizzolatto
#93. Atonement was powerful; it was the lock on the door you closed against the past.
Stephen King
#94. Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
Johan Rockstrom
#95. I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.
Dom Irrera
#96. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf
#97. They didn't answer. But I was thinking. I'd had to do a lot of thinking like this over the past year, and it was starting to come naturally.
Gini Koch
#98. You can Yell about the past or Dwell in the dark future. Both are sure to create hell.Rather let a Smile ring the bell Today.
R.v.m.
#99. Everything that I had in the past has been blown away from the images of tomorrow
This lost little boy has become a lost grown man
Austin V. Songer
#100. The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.
Patrick O'Brian
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