Past Quotes
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I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
Sara Willis
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For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.
Ian Macfarlane
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Everyone is scared of getting hurt, but having been there and taken the chance on someone and fallen in love - it's worth getting past all of your heart's reservations, regardless of how things transpire.
Chelsea Lankes
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One is always at home in one's past.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.
Brian Wilson
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Rachel True
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There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.
Kris Kristofferson
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
Randy Pausch
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We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
James L. Farmer, Jr.
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My country has no history, only a past.
Alden Nowlan
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My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.
Matthew Sweet
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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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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Charles R. Swindoll
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At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.
Max Heindel
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There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You
Mark Williams
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I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.
Derek Magyar
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."
Umberto Eco
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
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On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.
Nelson A. Miles
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
T. S. Eliot
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Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
Bob Harper
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
A. J. P. Taylor
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We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.
Blase J. Cupich
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There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.
Tony Kushner