Past Quotes

But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He...

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the pa...

Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to...

I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains...

Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the pas...

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they ...

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s,...

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engul...

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for yo...

There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists...

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it...

Fear not for the future weep not for the past.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, ...

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the li...

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it ou...

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...

True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was...

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation domi...

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will ...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he wil...

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrina...

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on y...

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing ...

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts o...

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I ...

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade ou...

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

Let's not go into the past.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crum...

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great...

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It...

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

I have emotionsthat are like newspapers thatread themselves.I go for days at a timetrapped in the wa...

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one sim...

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you ...

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but...

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain t...

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in ...

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future its degree of...

But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck w...

Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not...

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed b...

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause u...

Nothing is ever behind us.

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the i...

The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? Wha...

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they thin...

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if ...

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the...

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part ...

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I j...

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward...

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constru...

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of so...

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their te...

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedl...

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't unders...

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.