Past Quotes

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

What is past is prologue.

They say miracles are past.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

You can never plan the future by the past.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

I don't care about the past.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

I am fascinated with times past.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.