My Past Quotes

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

We have issued financial instruments in the past, and there is a strong demand for them, it is simply unnecessary now.

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.

What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past.

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

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

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

You read the past in some old faces.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

The past is prologue.