Past Quotes
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These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.
Sherman Alexie
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You read the past in some old faces.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.
Mike Ditka
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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.
Corey Dillon
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Will Durant
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We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
Craig D. Idso
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
Cressida Cowell
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Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
Isaac Watts
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If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.
George Sarton
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Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
Stephen Sondheim
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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.
William Gibson
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
Hilary Mantel
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... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
George Eliot
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It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.
Nick Baylis
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If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
Tony Blair
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Brett Gelman
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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.
William Hazlitt
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I write with my past, about the future, for the present.
Eyedea
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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.
Will Self
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When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.
Georges St-Pierre
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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.
Dania Ramirez
