Past Quotes
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Brooks Atkinson
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When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
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Whatever has happened in your past, it's - you can never deny it. I mean, you can never wash what's happened before in your life out of you.
Jessie Buckley
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I love to live in the past, with a little hope for the future...
Alexander Rybak
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I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
Amy Sarig King
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It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens.
James Harvey Robinson
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I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
John Bercow
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
Rachel Carson
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The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
Marcel Proust
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It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.
Louise Leakey
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A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period. Even if his own inward strength does not throw it off, the rubbings of the world generally smooth it down.
Jerome K. Jerome
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I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven't been back for years. I probably just miss the past.
Leonora Carrington
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
Ariel Durant
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Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.
Lloyd Doggett
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Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.
Elisabeth Moss
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To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again, and I think with great intent, you disconnect from the past.
Jonathan Ive
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The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear record, an amazing number of people have begun to scoff at the possibility of conspiracy at work today. They dismiss such an idea merely a conspiratorial point of view.
G. Edward Griffin
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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
John Cusack
