Past Quotes
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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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The past does not equal the future.
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But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
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As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions.
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I haven't promised anything for the future. Instead, I have said what I would have done differently in the past.
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I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
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I wasn't a cancer, ... It was just a point of having a deep passion for winning, and people viewed that in a different manner or whatnot. That's in the past.
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The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.
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For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.
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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
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I go to my past in order to discern the future.
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Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.
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'The UnAmericans' is a compassionate and brilliantly rendered debut - and for a book set largely in the past, these stories feel essential to understanding the contemporary world in which we live.
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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
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In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.
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I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
