Past Quotes
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The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
Mimi Rogers
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We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.
Gerald Warner
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We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.
Thomas Keating
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Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.
Steven Van Zandt
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
Erica Jong
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
William Butler Yeats
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I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!
Mia Hamm
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
Carolyn Wells
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
Alice Mattison
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
Terry Eagleton
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You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?
Stephen Carter
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If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
Michael Gove
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She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel
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The past is what the present is doing now.
Rowan Williams
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I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
Chang-Rae Lee
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The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
George Will