Top 1200 Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What are memories but dreams of a better past.

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

You can't think about the past anymore.

You can't let the past ruin your future.

I'm not going to live off the past.

The past is gained, secure, and on record.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

The past doesn't matter. Take today.

The past is never where you think you left it.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

The past is what the present is doing now.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Today's future is Tomorrow's past

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

What is now in the past was once in the future

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

?The past is always an invented land.

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.

I tried never to be defined by my past.

The past, the future: - two eternities!

We invent the past and remember the future.

I don't want to live on past records.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

The future is the keeper of the memories of the past

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

I do not worry about the past. I move on.

But the past is long, and the future is short.

s past history and stand alone.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The past doesn't have anything to do with the future, only if you let it.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

I think we agree, THE PAST IS OVER.

Lewandowski is past, I am the future.

When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.

Past tears are present strength.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Time goes from present to past.

I believe that we are a result of our past.

Our past has gone into history.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Past glories are poor feeding.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

The past is all we know of the future.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

You can't live off your past.

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

The past is certain, the future obscure.