Past Quotes
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During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.
Etgar Keret
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Past is past.
Pete Waterman
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The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
C. S. Lewis
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Many people feel duty-bound to express skepticism as if it were an automatic badge of honor and intellectual superiority. I'd done the same thing in the past, so I could understand the attitude.
Jane Roberts
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We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.
Frank Abagnale
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I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
Anton Walbrook
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I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.
Charles Krauthammer
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My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.
Nicholas Sparks
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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Jon Meacham
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I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.
Urijah Christopher Faber
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When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
Dan Harris
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No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.
David Anthony Durham
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I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.
Sarah Palin
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I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.
Karen Essex
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'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.
Matthew Ramsey
Old Dominion
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The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Neale Donald Walsch