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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today. — Dwayne Johnson

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes. — Jean Ingelow

Whatever you went through in past equipped you for today. What you experience now prepares you for the future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score. — Alexander Pope

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions — Samuel Johnson

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past . — Isaac Asimov

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age. — Levon Helm

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past. — John Robinson

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants. — Jeff Hawkins

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep. — M.R. Carey

Just past hell lies paradise.
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that.

Serina Hartwell Author of The Hidden Saga — Serina Hartwell

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story. — Michael Ende

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no. — Rocco Buttiglione

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see. — Donna Tartt

I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past. — Christian Lacroix

I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before. — Beth Harbison

I am 46, and have been for some time past. — Anita Brookner

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive. — John Gielgud

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there. — Andre Agassi

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past. — Robert B. Cialdini

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it. — Douglas McCulloh

I openly talk about my past because we should embrace our mistakes and our dark times, because without them we'd never have the lessons and the light. — Kathryn Perez

It is a commonplace that good historians don't judge statements from past times by the standards of their own. — Richard Dawkins

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. — Peter Ackroyd

Sometimes, at the least opportune times, the past is an insomniac, alive and well. — Courtney Cole

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. — Chuck Palahniuk

There are times God puts things in our lives that remind us of the past, so that we know ... not all is as lost as we thought it was. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I am fascinated with times past. — Frank Darabont

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times. — Aziz Ansari

So I fell in love with Phi Phi, a harmless enough emotion. I was wont to fall in love two or three times a year and was now well past due. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath — Frank Herbert

The happy times of pristine thinking and open minds, always favorable for beginnings, belonged now to the past, and we knew it. — Christa Wolf

Hearing from you makes me long for simpler times, but perhaps the attraction of the past is that it is over, and we can make of it what we will. — Starling Lawrence

All times are valuable; the past, present and the future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today. — Dwayne Johnson

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. — Cassandra Clare

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined — Frederick Lenz

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee. — Robert Herrick

For in those times when our hearts are in the darkest shadows, the slightest rays of hope can gleam like eternal sunshine — A.W.Chrystalis

There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past. — Shashi

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

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States. — Kyle MacLachlan

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be
for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past
is nearly overwhelming. — Katrina Kenison

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than. — Laura Owens

I'd a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I've been in for the past two years. — E. Lockhart

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

But the future reaches out to us, as does the past, and all times are the present. — Diana Gabaldon

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get. — Angela Merkel

I've skimmed through it a dozen times, the book glued to my side the past few days, like maybe the information will sink in through osmosis. — J.M. Darhower

The past times that you think were good, are good because they are not yours here and now. — Augustine Of Hippo

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. — Aristotle.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny. — Swami Vivekananda

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games. — Jerry West

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone. — Jeffery Deaver

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. — Arthur C. Clarke

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times. — Baha'u'llah

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror. — Pat Benatar

When that day until this day,
time still took months of running together,
past week, to meet, to the year — Ys Sroyer

I have been searching for time past all my life. — Jeanloup Sieff

Sometimes it's more painful to draw to mind the good times — Amy Molloy

The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution. — Ian McEwan

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better. — Robert Moss

It's not easy remembering the good times. — Cecelia Ahern

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. — Rajneesh

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. — John McCain

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! — Tony Campolo

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on. — Lisa Kristine

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

I miss my old life — Richard C. Morais

I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby ... — Jimmy Wales

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights. — Paul Azinger

Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece. — Annabel Croft

All times are connected; past, present and future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anytime we say tomorrow, we reduce our number of times to say tomorrow! Mind your time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. — Thomas Jefferson

God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time. — Billy Graham

Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad. — Augustine Of Hippo

For the present when backed by the past is a thousand times deeper than the present when it presses so close that you can feel nothing else — Olivia Laing

We praise times past, while we times present use;
Yet due the worship which to each we give. — Ovid

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. — Mark Twain