Past Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - r...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with d...

The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never ...

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a ka...

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts ...

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practice...

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us...

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abomin...

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But wha...

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detai...

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as peop...

There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to...

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to just...

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past ...

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr...

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recall...

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ...

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediat...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if tod...

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to ...

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and...

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waitin...

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead you never look back...

As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves...

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in t...

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that th...

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk...

Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; n...

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to ...

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of...

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think,...

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their histo...

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. Yo...

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the p...

For years I lived my life suspended, trapped by the past, unable to move into the future. Like every...

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in th...

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deed...

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers abou...

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightT...

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions th...

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - ...

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoug...

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visi...

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly...

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--f...

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my s...

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but ...

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not ...

You dated a vampire? A girl vampire?" (Simon)"It was a hundred and thirty years ago," (Magnus)"I hav...

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, a...

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the ...

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment d...

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they re...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving...

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.