Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. — Jill Dando Copy Share Image
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Ah yes...the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it...or learn from it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was… — Terence Crawford Copy Share Image
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
My supporters and family have limited resources, very limited resources; but the FBI has the unlimited resources of the most powerful government… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If all that glitters isn't gold, what color was the soul you sold? Step in the light and find your reflection, get… — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce. — Scott Coker Copy Share Image
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times. — Cynthia Rowley Copy Share Image
I hope you can move on from your past wounds now. Don't make yourself suffer anymore for what happened in the past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back? — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied… — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
I am a professional and when I go out there with the badge on, that's all I'm thinking about. Everything else is… — Matt Doherty Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
