Past Quotes
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass
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The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
Ken Liu
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
William James
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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
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I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.
Jessica Chastain
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Ever since I felt the baby kick, it's such an amazing feeling, and it's really allowed me to embrace it. Once you feel this movement inside, it's just a whole different experience, so I love it now. It was tough at the beginning, but I'm past all that, and I love it now.
Kim Kardashian
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Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.
Kameron Hurley
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It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.
Amelia Gray
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
Rumi
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about the past, and Mary Ann, before Harry went to do his two years in the army Maybe she sensed something about him. A loser. Though at eighteen he looked like a winner.
John Updike
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The past doesn't matter. Take today.
Becky Sauerbrunn
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There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.
Paula Deen
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My goal is always to improve what has been done the previous season and also collectively seek to do better than the year past.
Antoine Griezmann
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We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.
Ban Ki-moon
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I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.
Kanye West
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I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.
Adam Sandler
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
Marianne Williamson
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For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.
Corey Clark
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During the past week, indeed new confirmed cases have shown a downward trend. The situation has stabilized, ... Our estimation is that this is a result achieved through concerted efforts from all quarters.
Margaret Chan
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Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.
Marianne Williamson
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A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation.
George Gilder
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When I re-read my past work I can see a development to such an effect, indeed, that some of them no longer seem to be any part of me.
Elizabeth Jennings
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I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
Joe Wright