Top 1200 Things Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

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?

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

I don't like talking past the next game. It's never served me right in the past.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

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

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

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

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.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

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.

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.

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

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

That's what drives me on, being frightened to fail. The past is in the past. I never think I'm safe.

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

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

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.

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

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

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

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

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

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

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

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

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.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

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

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

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

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that.

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

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

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

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

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

My past is just that, my past. I try to not think about it and only keep moving forward.

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.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

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

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

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