In The Past Quotes

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality.

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

I am pretty specialized in people who pass over. Predictions are not my thing. Every medium is a psychic and every psychic is a medium. I do that occasionally but my specialty is spiritual pasts.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

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

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

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