Past Quotes

• The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

  

  Penelope Lively
  • Time
  • Power
  • Present

• We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Long
  • Past

• The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Past

• If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Present
  • Compared
  • Remote

• All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Up
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • Future
  • Distance

• I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski
  • History
  • Past
  • Imagination

• Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Walking

• He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Time
  • Happen
  • Foresee

• It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• 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.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Time
  • Important
  • Future

• There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

  

  Paul Twitchell
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Teacher

• I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Growing

• In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Past

• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Parents
  • Clever
  • Girls

• Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• The past is the luxury of proprietors.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Past

• If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • History
  • Help

• Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Worry

• If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Imagination
  • Ideas
  • Looks

• The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

  

  Ariel Durant
  • Past
  • Present
  • Rolled

• ...WHEREAS, IN THE PAST, THE POINT OF DISAGREEMENT HAS BEEN BETWEEN DISSONANCE AND CONSONANCE, IT WILL BE, IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE, BETWEEN NOISE AND SO-CALLED MUSICAL SOUNDS.

  

  John Cage
  • Future
  • Past

• Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Why
  • Power

• He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

  

  Tony Kornheiser
  • Week
  • Next
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