The Past Quotes

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

I play chess, but my past is checkered, The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

The past doesn't buy you much.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.

Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

What is past is prologue.

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The past is where its supposed to be.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.