Top 1200 Past Wrongs Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

I love the past. I read about the past all the time.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

I was in New York in 2014. It was still cold outside. I was sitting there working on 'Exchange' and 'Right My Wrongs' at the time, and a fan had commented on one of my songs called 'Let Em' Know' that was already on my SoundCloud and said, 'trapsoul movement.'

He was living proof that this country can improve. That, as a nation, we can peacefully confront historic wrongs and right them. John Lewis may be gone but his message and his legacy remains.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

So many designers now look to the past for their inspiration when creating new looks, but if you get one from the past, it won't go out of fashion.

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

This thing you carry inside you, I don't know what it is. I don't know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.

I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

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

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

I don't want to talk about the past. I don't live in past.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

I always like to remind myself that the most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do and then move on and do their best to right the wrongs they have made.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.