Past Quotes

• In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Work
  • Truth

• People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

  

  Effa Manley
  • People
  • Live
  • Interesting

• Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Experiences
  • Capacity

• Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

  

  John Mayer
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Ego

• Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Past
  • June

• I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • Why
  • City
  • Walking

• Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

  

  George A. Smith
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Memories

• Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atrocious.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Happy
  • Past

• The only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Tomorrow
  • Build
  • Bury

• Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

  

  Leslie Morgan Steiner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• All the past is not worth one today.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Today
  • Past

• I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Present

• Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

  

  Alan Dundes
  • Future
  • Past

• Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Pain

• Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Past
  • Education

• I've owned mopeds in the past.

  

  Brett Dalton
  • Past

• The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Independent

• The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

  

  John Milton
  • Character
  • Past

• The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

  

  J. Frank Dobie
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Imagination

• People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • People
  • Past

• You can only understand the present age when it is past.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Age
  • Present
  • Understand

• One thing that makes me optimistic is other media from the digital world coming at radio. MTV tried to kill the radio star back in the '80s. And with all the digital services coming at us, people say it's a thing of the past - it's not.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • People
  • World
  • Star

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