Past Quotes
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An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
Debbie Ford
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How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
Brewster Kahle
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Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.
C. K. Prahalad
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His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.
Courtney Milan
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Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.
Matthew Desmond
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
Douglas Hurd
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In the past, I had these really high-tech boardshorts.
John John Florence
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People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king.
Bennett Miller
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
William Lyon Phelps
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
Andy Summers The Police
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
Dwayne Johnson
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The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.
Jonathan Kozol
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We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.
Barack Obama
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
Vladimir Putin
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
Haile Selassie
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Sadly, voter suppression is not a thing of the past.
Marc Veasey
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In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.
Amanda Holden
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While the Internet has allowed for some extraordinary progress in creating conversations about diversity, it also allows uninformed comments that one has made in the past to live forever.
Karamo Brown
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I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
Bruce Willis
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You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
Eric Cantona
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I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
Antonio Conte
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I wonder why we hate the past so.
William Dean Howells
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Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
John Leonard