Past Quotes

• Many of our leaders have gone past the old-fashioned politics of the democratic era and entered into the politics of fear. People running for national office no longer emphasize their views about the economy or social change. The leading political question of our time has become: who can ease our nightmares?

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

  

  Fabio Capello
  • Past
  • Study

• It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.

  

  George Foreman
  • Giving
  • Reminiscing
  • Memories Past

• I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Present
  • Inspiration
  • Blues

• We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

  

  William James
  • Creatures
  • Imitator
  • Copiers

• The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

  

  Ariel Durant
  • Past
  • Present
  • Rolled

• I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

  

  John Cusack
  • Past

• If the past is an indication, when women are given a job to do in Congress, they get it done.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Women
  • Done
  • Job

• The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past... so you really don't know anything.

  

  William Shatner
  • Past
  • Knows
  • Gone

• While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Future
  • Past

• There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Approach
  • Critical
  • Currents

• You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

  

  Leopold von Ranke
  • History
  • Judging
  • Office

• In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

  

  Martin Van Creveld
  • Future
  • Past
  • Sun

• I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Writing
  • Past

• I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.

  

  Clayton Moore
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

  

  Arnold H. Glasow
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Future

• They came three thousand miles, and died,To keep the Past upon its throne;Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,Their English mother made her moan.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Mother
  • English
  • Ocean

• Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • World
  • History
  • Amazing

• Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.

  

  James Arthur
  • Up
  • Future
  • Anxiety

• The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Remember

• It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

  

  Mayim Bialik
  • Women
  • Past
  • Amazing

• In the past, you would take the time to write a love letter and you would think about what you wanted to say and compose it in a certain way. Now, everything is so short. It has to be, because it is rushed, and therefore, in a way, it loses a little bit of its importance. But I think it is very important to take the time to say what you want to say.

  

  Haider Ackermann
  • Time
  • Important
  • Past

• The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Past
  • Creature
  • Disgrace

• I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Book
  • Reading

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