Past Quotes
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.
Dalai Lama
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
N.D. Wilson
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For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.
Fabio Capello
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The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
Marie Kondo
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I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!
Tommy Franks
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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
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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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Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.
Ben Bernanke
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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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Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.
William Shakespeare
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Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.
Carol Bowman
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Ye come and go incessant; we remainSafe in the hallowed quiets of the past;Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,Of faith so nobly realized as this.
James Russell Lowell
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois
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The man of the past.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
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I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.
Marcia Cross
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
William Godwin
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History is past politics, and politics is present history.
Edward Augustus Freeman
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
William Wordsworth
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Like DiMaggio putting daily flowers on Marilyn’s grave, I find myself compulsively drifting past here every day in a vigil that only reinforces my unredeemability.
Edward Vilga
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Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.
Peter Bergen
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I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option.
Pramila Jayapal