Top 1200 Things Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.

Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

Everybody's got some things that have happened bad in their past. Mine was just very public.

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.

Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Dwelling too much on the past, other than to learn specific things is counterproductive for me.

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

I love saying terrible things. Things that I think are terrible and I've gotten in to trouble in the past - just hearing it come out of my mouth or seeing it typed and seeing it out there - something terrible that in real life isn't funny.

Unfortunately, my departure from Madrid was not pleasant, but those things are in the past, and I have learned a lot and matured.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

At the end of the day, you can't reinvent yourself past a point, because you are you, and there are things that are inherently you that are always going to be there.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.

If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.

we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.