Past Quotes
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The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
Anthony Robbins -
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.
Ernest Renan
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Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
Terry Eagleton -
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
Terry Eagleton -
For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.
David Bowie -
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel -
I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
Sue Grafton -
On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
Christine Caine
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The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
Terry Eagleton -
Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"
Thomas Hood -
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 -
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 -
After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.
Dolly Parton -
Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.
Boonaa Mohammed
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The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
George Will -
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 -
Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a strong leader who will make a significant break with the past. And Hillary Clinton is a person - whether you like it or not - of extraordinary experience. I don't know if we ever had a presidential candidate with that level of political experience. There's no learning curve for her. And that, in some periods, would be a huge plus. In the end, I think it will be a significant plus for her now.
Cass Sunstein