Past Quotes
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Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.
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The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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I got whiplash. I didn't even know the wall was there. I tried to blow past the ball and I slammed into the wall.
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I can't stay stuck in the past.
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I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
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The present is the key to the past.
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We read the future by the past.
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I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.
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Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing-finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
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Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
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Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.
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If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?
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A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
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I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'
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We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.
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I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.
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A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.
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the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
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There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
