Past Quotes
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
Umberto Eco
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Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
Tamara Ecclestone
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The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.
The Weeknd
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Manmohan Singh
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
Carla Bruni
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
Ed Gillespie
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
Paris Hilton
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I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny.
Charles Rosen
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A form must be of its own time if it is to be recognized: one cannot relate to what one is not or does not have – Thus all that is of the past is to be rejected.
Piet Mondrian
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.
Randy Neugebauer
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
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The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
Jalal Talabani
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I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
Lara St. John
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
John Thorn
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I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.
David Blunkett
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
Brown Campbell
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
A. J. P. Taylor
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In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
Dwight Yoakam
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
Ed Harris