Top 1200 Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.

It was a kiss from the past.

I don't live in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

You can't have a better past.

Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.

I'm not living in the past.

I don't care about the past.

The past is the father of the present.

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

Forget the past.

The past cannot be cured.

Future is not extrapolation of past

I can't stay stuck in the past.

We are tomorrow's past.

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

The past is pregnant with the present.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

What is past is prologue.

Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

We can't be beholden to the past.

Everyone has a past.

I have a sordid past.

That parasite: the past.

We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

I learned from my past.

The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

The past is where its supposed to be.

The past is obdurate.

The past doesn't buy you much.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

You can't live in the past.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

The future is always here in the past

The past can be changed by the future.

We can't look for greatness in the past.

You have to live in the future, not the past.

I believe my past is my strength.

The past has to inform the present.

We all have appointments with the past.

I won't cling to the past.

We have to learn from the past.

I'm attracted to the past.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

Privacy is a thing of the past.

I dwell in the past.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

The present is the key to the past

I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but I think calling oneself a feminist in the past may have been inimical because feminists in the '70s were the first to really challenge deeply embedded gender roles and demand concrete political and economic rights. They were asking for rights that seemed like a direct threat to those in power - they were asking for equality in a society that didn't have it in an obvious way. They were put down and villainized because they were seen as threatening.

There ain't no future in the past.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

We're not prisoners of the past.

I know I have a past.

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

You are not your past.

Most of my influences are from the past.