Past Quotes

• 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?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Pain

• The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Time
  • Look Back
  • Swiftness

• More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

  

  John Thorn
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dream

• For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Brain

• There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Moments
  • Design
  • Isolation

• That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

  

  Stephanie Klein
  • Kids
  • Health
  • Pain

• I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Past

• Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past.

  

  Alan Stern
  • May
  • Past

• Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Up
  • Past
  • Present

• By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Future
  • Present
  • Miracles

• That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Present
  • Speak
  • Living

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  

  Buddha
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Dream

• We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east where you got people getting beheaded it's like the crusades with Twitter. It's crazy, human nature does the same thing. In a way, even though you're in the future people wanted order so this sort of system rose up.

  

  Alfred Gough
  • Future
  • Past
  • Low Tech

• I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.

  

  Winston Duke
  • Past
  • Stories
  • Created

• The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.

  

  Anjan Sundaram
  • Country
  • Today
  • Unique

• History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

  

  P. D. James
  • History
  • Future
  • Present

• There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

  

  James Joyce
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Mean

• It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

  

  Casey Stoner
  • Thinking
  • Sports
  • Memories

• I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy

  

  George Clooney
  • Night
  • Scene
  • Rainy

• The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

  

  William Robertson Nicoll
  • Tragedy
  • Forgotten
  • Disenchantment

• Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Done
  • Past
  • Present

• We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Future
  • Place
  • Rockstars

• In the past, I travelled with 'The Hero and the Crown' by Robin McKinley: I suffer from a fear of flying, and I felt a bit safer knowing I carried the book and characters with me.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Book
  • Fear
  • Hero

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