Past Quotes
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There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
Chuck D
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Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.
Faraaz Kazi
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To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).
Leopold von Ranke
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
Marianne Williamson
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Leslie Poles Hartley
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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
R. M. Williams
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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
Saint Augustine
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It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.
Katharine Weymouth
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I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
Marina Abramovic
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Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
Rachel Caine
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Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
George Herbert Mead
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
Walt Disney
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom
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It doesn't matter what happened in the past or what happens in the present, when we tee up tomorrow, it's a new day. It's a brand new game.
Gary Player
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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
H. P. Blavatsky
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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn
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Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.
Alan Colmes
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The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
Alessandro Michele
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
Jose Rizal
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Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler
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I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too.
Jessica Chastain
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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
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That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene