The Past Quotes

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.

The longest journeyIs the journey inwards.Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.

It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

We all have appointments with the past.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

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

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

The past doesn't have anything to do with the future, only if you let it.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.