The Past Quotes

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

Study the past if you want to define the future.

There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.