Past Quotes
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If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.
Nishan
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The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
John Joly
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There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
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Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4×100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.
Usain Bolt
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The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
Marjorie Holmes
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What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
Freya Stark
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The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.
Keegan Bradley
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I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
Hafez
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Somewhere in my closetThere's a cardboard box just sittin' on a shelf.It's full of faded memoriesAnd it's been there ever since the night you left.Oh, just forgotten photographsTo remind me of the past.Oh, but I can still see everything just fine.Who needs pictures with a memory like mine?Yeah, who needs pictures with a memory like mine?
Brad Paisley
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The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.
Terry Eagleton
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
Isaac Asimov
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How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?
John Steinbeck
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I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.
August Strindberg
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I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.
Melanie Fiona Hallim
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If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.
Kimi Raikkonen
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Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
Anohni
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Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?
Yvon Chouinard
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Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product.
Ted Sarandos
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Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will prosper, hope that once again we will reap the blessings of this magical land, for without hope I cannot live, remember the past but do not dwell there, face the future where all our hopes stand.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
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There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
Merle Haggard
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Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.
Paul Theroux