Past Quotes
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Every White House Correspondents' Dinner for the past three years, I have broken my dress and can't even zip it, so we have to leave - that's why I've missed every carpet appearance. One time, we had to go into Virginia to find me a new dress.
Chrissy Teigen
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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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The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
Susanna Kearsley
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Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can’t hurt anyone.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
Cynthia Ozick
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We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
Louise Leakey
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He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.
George Eliot
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It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.
Carolyn Mackler
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For me, everything happens for a reason. I'm thankful that it happened because it saved me from the past, and now I can move forward and meet the person that was destined to be with me."
Nikki Gil
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A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
Catherine Anderson
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
Cesare Pavese
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I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
Cary Elwes
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Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless.
Boonaa Mohammed
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Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
Jon Oringer
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The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.
Isaac Marion
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I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
Shania Twain
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'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'
Kenneth Branagh
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I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
John Wooden
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It continues to be my strong belief that the way we are going to make sure that everybody feels a part of this global economy is not by shutting ourselves off from each other, even if we could, but rather by working together more effectively than we have in the past.
Barack Obama
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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.'
Susan Choi
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It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and-stripped of the ability to get drunk on it-wine was just sour grape juice.
Charles Stross
