Top 1200 Stuck In The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.

I've always been a huge Tupac fan, and I often listen to him for inspiration or when I'm stuck.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.

To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

If I'm stuck in traffic or have a bad moment in my day, I go back to my yoga practice, and I breathe.

While the past asks only to be remembered, a woman's memory alters on her behalf and in her best interests. Memory - the vain old biddy - cannot resist penciling a few slight, cosmetic revisions in the margins of the past.

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.

Americans are guaranteed the constitutional right to legal abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it's past time for Republicans to stop using the issue as a political football. In fact, it's past time for Republican politicians to stop interfering in women's personal lives, period.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.

The past is the past: what can you do about it?

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.

There were times people tried to get me to change trainers, but I stuck with my dad.

Adjusting and evolving as a player and not being stuck in a certain way, I'm happy for those things.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

Yes, we have the judiciary, the Constitution, we're fighting racism on a daily basis, but these are all state efforts and are not the efforts of the individual. The individual has to commit to change, the individual has to look at the past and take accountability of the past; for the wound to heal we have to dress it together.

If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.

The past was so past it hurt.

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

None of my family is in the industry. But I watched movies like an insane person when I was a child. I used to make my dad stop at the video store every time we drove past it, and you had to drive past the video store to get to our house.

The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.

The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad!

Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.

A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.

Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive.

I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.