Top past Quotes Collection - Page 4

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Image of Aravind Adiga
A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.
- Aravind Adiga
Collection: Past
Image of E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
The past is the best way to suppose what may come.
- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Collection: Past
Image of Alexandra Ripley
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
- Alexandra Ripley
Collection: Past
Image of Roman Polanski
I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.
- Roman Polanski
Collection: Past
Image of Fay Weldon
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
- Fay Weldon
Collection: Past
Image of Kamila Shamsie
That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?
- Kamila Shamsie
Collection: Past
Image of Susane Colasanti
The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.
- Susane Colasanti
Collection: Past
Image of Jillian Michaels
The past does not define, you the present does.
- Jillian Michaels
Collection: Past
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Past
Image of Pope Paul VI
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
- Pope Paul VI
Collection: Past
Image of Jamie Ford
I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me
- Jamie Ford
Collection: Past
Image of Dru Pagliassotti
There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.
- Dru Pagliassotti
Collection: Past
Image of Glen Cook
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
- Glen Cook
Collection: Past
Image of Flora Rheta Schreiber
There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.
- Flora Rheta Schreiber
Collection: Past
Image of James Montgomery
Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.
- James Montgomery
Collection: Past
Image of T. Colin Campbell
DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition. Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor.
- T. Colin Campbell
Collection: Past
Image of Giovanni Boccaccio
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Collection: Past
Image of Giovanni Boccaccio
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Collection: Past
Image of Sarah Waters
I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.
- Sarah Waters
Collection: Past
Image of Rowan Williams
The past is what the present is doing now.
- Rowan Williams
Collection: Past
Image of Tim Ryan
It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.
- Tim Ryan
Collection: Past
Image of Gilbert Adair
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.
- Gilbert Adair
Collection: Past
Image of Cressida Cowell
The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?
- Cressida Cowell
Collection: Past
Image of Cressida Cowell
Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
- Cressida Cowell
Collection: Past
Image of Maria V. Snyder
You can't let the past ruin your future.
- Maria V. Snyder
Collection: Past
Image of Charles Wright
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
- Charles Wright
Collection: Past
Image of Nicholas Sparks
The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.
- Nicholas Sparks
Collection: Past
Image of Nicholas Sparks
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
Collection: Past
Image of Jesse Ball
The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.
- Jesse Ball
Collection: Past
Image of Nate Ruess
May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground.
- Nate Ruess
Collection: Past
Image of Brian Friel
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
- Brian Friel
Collection: Past
Image of Wislawa Szymborska
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
- Wislawa Szymborska
Collection: Past
Image of Friedrich Schiller
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
- Friedrich Schiller
Collection: Past
Image of Eleanor Catton
A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.
- Eleanor Catton
Collection: Past
Image of Adam Lindsay Gordon
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
Collection: Past
Image of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All the past is not worth one today.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Collection: Past
Image of Stormie Omartian
The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.
- Stormie Omartian
Collection: Past
Image of Gary Miller
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades
- Gary Miller
Collection: Past
Image of Francis Beaumont
But what is past my help is past my care.
- Francis Beaumont
Collection: Past
Image of Sarah Palin
He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.
- Sarah Palin
Collection: Past
Image of Zadie Smith
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
- Zadie Smith
Collection: Past
Image of Zadie Smith
Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
- Zadie Smith
Collection: Past
Image of Rihanna
You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
- Rihanna
Collection: Past
Image of Livia Bitton-Jackson
My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.
- Livia Bitton-Jackson
Collection: Past
Image of Billie Piper
Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years
- Billie Piper
Collection: Past
Image of Swami Vivekananda
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Past
Image of James Howe
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed
- James Howe
Collection: Past
Image of Linda Wisdom
Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.
- Linda Wisdom
Collection: Past
Image of Gloria Steinem
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
- Gloria Steinem
Collection: Past