The Past Quotes
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The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first.
— Anjali Chugh
The future is born, put the past in a casket
— Lil' Wayne
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
— Sushmita Banerjee
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
— Thomas Love Peacock
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
— Claudia Rankine
It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.
— Dave Pelzer
The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
— David Klass
Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.
— Shirley Maclaine
He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.
— Sidney Sheldon
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
— Robert Carlyle
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.
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
— Berenice Abbott
the best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past.
— Hugh Young
Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant.
— Steven Erikson
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.
— Jeremy Hardy
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
— T.D. Jakes
Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.
— Susan Meissner
All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.
— Ted Kooser
My attempts at brushing him off were three counties past the border of outright rude, but nothing fazed him.
— A&E Kirk
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
If the past was what we were meant to see ... Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.
— R.v.m.
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
— Friedrich Schiller
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
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
— Donald J. Trump
Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.
— Christopher Paolini
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
— Carlton Cuse
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people ... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
— Ken Blanchard
Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.
— Lara Adrian
No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived.
— Seneca.
I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment.
— Jillian Lauren
A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.
— Anne Lamott
On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange
— Gertrude Chandler Warner
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.
— Sarah Knowles Bolton
Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output
— Richard Posner
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
— James Anthony Froude
Learn from the past, but don't be a prisoner of it.
— Jamie Larbi
The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!
— T. B. Joshua
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
— Nicolas Chamfort
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
— Tabitha King
Holding on to the past is like groping in the dark room when you have the opportunity to turn on the light. You only stumble, fall and hurt yourself.
— Wogu Donald
What happened in the past can't be changed, but it can be a guide for what happens in your future.
— Maria V. Snyder
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
— Richard Jefferies
During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.
— Kailash Satyarthi
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
— Pearl Bailey
No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ...
— Amitav Ghosh
Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
— Mick Jagger
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
— Mark McKinnon
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
— Henry Louis Gates
You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.
— Mikaela Shiffrin
Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.
— Lisa Mantchev
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
— Honore De Balzac
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
— Eduardo Galeano
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
— Richard Paul Evans
You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.
— V.T. Davy
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
— Adrian Rogers
Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
— Nicholas Ostler
Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.
— Carine Roitfeld
Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it.
— Scott James Magner
We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
— J.G. Ballard
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
— Alan Watts
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.
— Jennifer Capriati
We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.
— Katharine Hayhoe
Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook.
— Steve Inskeep
The past can not be cured.
— Elizabeth I
The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.
— Rajneesh
How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?
— Kyo Maclear
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
— Jack Kornfield
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset
— Tony Dovale
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
— Dan Harris
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
— Merle Shain
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
— Robert Penn Warren
We must forget our past because our past was a life according to the thoughts of people and not God
— Sunday Adelaja
Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict.
— John Berger
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
— Casey Stengel
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
— Wendell Berry
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
— Max Lerner
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
— Edward W. Said
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
— Price Pritchett
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
— Michael Bassey
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
— Isaac Watts