Past Quotes
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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross -
We Conservatives have always passed our values from generation to generation. I believe that personal prosperity should follow the same course. I want to see wealth cascading down the generations. We do not see each generation starting out anew, with the past cut off and the future ignored.
John Major
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
Ariel Durant -
No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.
Angelina Jolie -
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.
C. S. Lewis -
The past has a way of catching up with you.
Cressida Cowell -
Most of my influences are from the past.
Boy George Culture Club -
It has gone past me now, the writing phase.
Rod Stewart
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I need to acknowledge that she may have controlled my past, but she doesn't have to dominate my present and my future, too
Carolyn Mackler -
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 -
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
Oprah Winfrey -
I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
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 -
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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
Olga Korbut -
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley -
If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one.
Jean Chatzky -
Since we have no systematic way to avoid all the inconsistencies of commonsense logic, each person must find his own way by building a private collection of 'cognitive censors' to suppress the kinds of mistakes he has discovered in the past.
Marvin Minsky -
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide -
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
John F. Kennedy
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The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.
Vladimir Putin -
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.
Mark Zandi -
Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Sara Shepard -
I don't think I've been shy in the past. Young and uncomfortable, maybe. But shy? It has become this annoying term that I've been lumbered with.
Kelly Macdonald