About The Past Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about About The Past

About The Past Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational About The Past quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Worrying about the past is tending the ashes instead of the fire. — A.R. Simmons

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment — Chanakya

It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past — Sunday Adelaja

I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it, — Luis Figo

Photographs are facts, but not necessarily true ... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today. — Ai Weiwei

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present. — Eoin Colfer

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time — Bill Belichick

The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy. — Hafsa Shah

The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation. — Joan Jett

Perfect information about the past and the present contains the very instructions to build the future. — Ryan Quinn

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future. — Patti Callahan Henry

I write with my past, about the future, for the present — Eyedea

Freedom is about stopping the past. — Lawrence Lessig

How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

sense trying to make him feel bad about it. She tilted back her glass and went past the gin for a second time. She — Ann Patchett

God is excited about your future, and I hope you are also. Don't let the discouragement of the past steal the amazing future that is yours. — Joyce Meyer

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. — Gregory Crewdson

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years. — John Walters

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future. — Jeff Bridges

Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in. — Sam Owen

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. — Sarah Dessen

Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate. — Gudjon Bergmann

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

No matter how bright your future seems you can never forget about the past". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other. — Rene Daumal

To bask in the present, care nothing about the future, and forget the past. — R.A. Salvatore

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. — Lawrence Lessig

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. — Bruce Pavitt

It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now. — Gunnar Nelson

My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past.. — Gillian Flynn

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past. — Stefan Zweig

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. — Christiane Amanpour

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them. — Otto Preminger

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. — Julie Walters

This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey. — Patricia Monaghan

Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook. — Steve Inskeep

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s. — Jet Li

YOU CANT CHANGE THE PAST,BUT YOU CAN RUIN YOUR PERFECTLY PRESENT LIFE BY WORRYING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE. — Lester Swan

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future. — Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford

The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'? — Sara Sheridan

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. — Bell Hooks

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present. — David Von Drehle

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past. — Ice Cube

It was a beautiful day. About time. Way past time. But if the sunlight knew what the fuck it was shining on, would it bother to make the trip? — Mike Carey

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past. — Ruth Reichl

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins. — Richard Rorty

The Democrats of today, they don't care about the past, other than look at aspects of it they hate. — Rush Limbaugh

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment. — Wayne Dyer

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.] — Pope Pius II

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now. — Danny Masterson

The child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past. — Cormac McCarthy

What you leave behind says as much about you as what you bring along. — Jacquelyn Middleton

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future. — Jennifer Aniston

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past. — Ruth Reichl

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past. — Marlo Morgan

Crossing the line isn't about forgetting the people we love. It's about not letting our past sorrow steal our future joy. — Deanna Roy

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too? — Ian Somerhalder

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past. — Elizabeth Kostova

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit. — Kevin Whately

You need to think about the future, not the past. You — Gemma Liviero

You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did. — Rachel Caine

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. — Harry Browne

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything. — Graham Greene

I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales. — April Mae Monterrosa

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. — Sinead O'Connor

One thing about past challenges I never let go of: the fact that I made it through, survived, and learned a great deal. — Charles F. Glassman

I wondered whether you and Mr. Locke had any recollection about the past.
I see now that we all suffer the same. — Nathan Reese Maher

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past? — James Patterson

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you. — Robert Kiyosaki

He gritted his teeth, frustrated with himself, but there was nothing he could do about years past. Perhaps he could change the future. — Brandon Sanderson

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. — John Logan

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. — Billy Corgan

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past. — Mason Cooley

Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past. — Mark McKinnon

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you. — Ben Whishaw

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future. — John Kuypers

Our inability to talk about the past was almost as damaging to our relationship as the past itself. — Leigh Byrne

Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future. — Jackson Burnett

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with. — Paddy Considine

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them. — J.B. Priestley

It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking. — Charles Dickens

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us. — Sylvia Earle

Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters. — Jayne Ann Krentz

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. — Chuck Klosterman

The future seems to be in good hands, it's the past I'm worried about. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Checkered past. I know about these jewels the same way I — Nora Roberts

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. — Sara Sheridan

Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present. — Susan Meissner

Your mind needs a goal or it will continue to think about the past. — Ann Marie Bryan

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past. — Townes Van Zandt

Never think about the past, that shit will fuck you up and you cant fuck it back — Marlon James

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past. — Alex Trebek

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present. — Vidya Balan