Top past Quotes Collection - Page 5

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Image of Robert Penn Warren
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
- Robert Penn Warren
Collection: Past
Image of Robert Penn Warren
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
- Robert Penn Warren
Collection: Past
Image of Esi Edugyan
It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
- Esi Edugyan
Collection: Past
Image of Roland Merullo
The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.
- Roland Merullo
Collection: Past
Image of Ian Mortimer
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.
- Ian Mortimer
Collection: Past
Image of Lauren Kate
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
- Lauren Kate
Collection: Past
Image of Christopher Paolini
Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon
- Christopher Paolini
Collection: Past
Image of Terri Windling
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
- Terri Windling
Collection: Past
Image of Carter G. Woodson
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
- Carter G. Woodson
Collection: Past
Image of Robert Plant
It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.
- Robert Plant
Collection: Past
Image of Elizabeth Hand
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.
- Elizabeth Hand
Collection: Past
Image of Anita Stansfield
Everything that happened in the past "It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.
- Anita Stansfield
Collection: Past
Image of Oscar Wilde
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Past
Image of Satchel Paige
One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.
- Satchel Paige
Collection: Past
Image of Maeve Brennan
All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.
- Maeve Brennan
Collection: Past
Image of Amitav Ghosh
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
- Amitav Ghosh
Collection: Past
Image of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Collection: Past
Image of Tom Wolfe
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.
- Tom Wolfe
Collection: Past
Image of Michelle Williams
There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.
- Michelle Williams
Collection: Past
Image of Farley Mowat
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
- Farley Mowat
Collection: Past
Image of George Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Collection: Past
Image of Kevin Pietersen
I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.
- Kevin Pietersen
Collection: Past
Image of Vine Deloria Jr.
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.
- Vine Deloria Jr.
Collection: Past
Image of Eugene O'Neill
The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.
- Eugene O'Neill
Collection: Past
Image of Tim O'Reilly
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.
- Tim O'Reilly
Collection: Past
Image of Ichiro Suzuki
I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.
- Ichiro Suzuki
Collection: Past
Image of Greg Norman
I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.
- Greg Norman
Collection: Past
Image of Tilly Bagshawe
I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor
- Tilly Bagshawe
Collection: Past
Image of R.J. Ellory
Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.
- R.J. Ellory
Collection: Past
Image of Dan B. Allender
If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.
- Dan B. Allender
Collection: Past
Image of Ali ibn Abi Talib
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Collection: Past
Image of Bill Nighy
I'm relaxed naked as long as there is no one else there. I speed up past mirrors.
- Bill Nighy
Collection: Past
Image of Hilary Swank
I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their stories and talk about things you'd like to see happen in the world. That's what we do.
- Hilary Swank
Collection: Past
Image of Steve Pavlina
The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.
- Steve Pavlina
Collection: Past
Image of Agathon
Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
- Agathon
Collection: Past
Image of Jean Rostand
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
- Jean Rostand
Collection: Past
Image of Ayrton Senna
The past is just data. I only see the future.
- Ayrton Senna
Collection: Past
Image of Steven Galloway
Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.
- Steven Galloway
Collection: Past
Image of Jeannette Walls
Interesting people always have a past.
- Jeannette Walls
Collection: Past
Image of James Schuyler
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively
- James Schuyler
Collection: Past
Image of Jeri Ryan
It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
- Jeri Ryan
Collection: Past
Image of Louise Rennison
And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.
- Louise Rennison
Collection: Past
Image of Kathrine Switzer
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
- Kathrine Switzer
Collection: Past
Image of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Everyone must learn from the past.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Collection: Past
Image of Gene Roddenberry
Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.
- Gene Roddenberry
Collection: Past
Image of Novala Takemoto
All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.
- Novala Takemoto
Collection: Past
Image of Neil Peart
Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
- Neil Peart
Collection: Past
Image of Gary Ross
There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal or stereotype. And it's a natural inclination in a world where it's so complex and so occasionally valueless, morally bankrupt, and chaotic that we want to reach back to something in our past.
- Gary Ross
Collection: Past
Image of Clay Shirky
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
- Clay Shirky
Collection: Past