Past Quotes
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I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.
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I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
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Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.
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It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
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After all, who knows what the distant past was like? About Kepler and Copernicus, people often say, You captured the period so well! I always want to ask, How do you know? You weren't there either.
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The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
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Our slender life runs rippling by, and glidesInto the silent hollow of the past;What is there that abidesTo make the next age better for the last?
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.
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I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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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.
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Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
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Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
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You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.
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I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.
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Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
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Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.
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The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
