Top 1200 Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

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.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

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

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

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.

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.

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

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.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

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.

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

Things past redress are now with me past care

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

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

When I'm driving past the place I used to work, or when I'm driving past the comedy studio where I used to take photos in exchange for classes, or when I'm driving past the yoga studio I used to clean on the weekends - it's not that far removed from me yet. I get very sentimental over things like that.

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

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.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.

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

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of 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.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

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

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

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

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

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present

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

The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

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.