Talking About The Past Quotes

#1. It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#2. If a person's around me talking about '92, or 2005, I get away from them quickly. I don't want to be around anybody talking about the past.

Juicy J

#3. He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

Michael Dobbs

#4. Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,

Robert Lowell

#5. in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Before

William Maxwell

#6. Why ruin the present by talking about the past?

Victor Robert Lee

#7. I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

Arnold Palmer

#8. I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Charlie Sheen

#9. When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

Jack Welch

#10. Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

Simon Sinek

#11. I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.

Tracy McMillan

#12. 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

#13. She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

Carolyn Brown

#14. He was never long between women. It was after the thrill had passed and the intimacy became real that he found it difficult. He didn't like talking about his past and he didn't trust promises.

Lisa Ballantyne

#15. In a way," I said to him, "that now you're talking about hardly exists. We feel it, but it's impossible to measure. The past is always eating up the present.

Siri Hustvedt

#16. Dear Judy Blume, why didn't you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#17. All I'd done for the past ten years was talk about it. I was sick of talking...sick of analyzing...sick of reliving it...sick of the screaming in my head that replayed over and over like a song stuck on repeat.

S.A. Healey

#18. You already past 21 and you still talking about "I'ma be a rapper." You ain't did one show, niggas ain't seen you on TV. So Kendrick kind of went through the same thing I went through. He just had his mom's house to go to.

Schoolboy Q

#19. Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.

Rush Limbaugh

#20. The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past
it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.

Ben Robertson

#21. But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.

Agatha Christie

#22. It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright

#23. New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.

Bill Maher

#24. In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios.

Fred Armisen

#25. They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.

Donald Miller

#26. Sluka shook her head. We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

Alastair Reynolds

#27. Talking about Meghann's painful choice and the lonely years that had followed it wouldn't help. Her past wasn't a collection of memories to be worked through; it was like an oversize Samsonite with a bum wheel.

Kristin Hannah

#28. If we are talking about choice and regret, what has happened cannot be undone. And dwelling on the past changes nothing. You will only drive yourself to insanity if you do.

Julie Kagawa

#29. Life is much too short to waste time wallowing in the past especially when the future hands you a second chance.

Chakotay Talking to B'Ellana (When she asks him why he isn't mad her for lying about her and Miral being dead)
Book:Unworthy: pg. 121

Kirsten Beyer

#30. Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy ... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

Brent Smith

#31. My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

Gordie Howe

#32. Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Jean Webster

#33. You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.

Rachel Caine

#34. Then why have you been talking about her for the past half hour straight?" His friend glanced over at him, a cheeky grin on his face, and the rockstar glared exaggeratedly.
"I have not."
"You definitely have. I missed an entire episode of Cupcake Wars because you've got a crush.

Andrea D. Smith

#35. Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Bob Dylan