Past Quotes · Page 97

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

— Jeanette Winterson

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

— Horace

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

— Ann Brashares

I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself.

— Howard Jacobson

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

— Herbert Read

some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

— Hugh Howey

Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors…

— Anonymous

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

— Amy Winehouse

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say…

— Patrick O'Brian

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never…

— Brian K. Vaughan

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present…

— Anonymous

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

— Marcus Aurelius

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient…

— Robert Holdstock

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior…

— Robert Hewison

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation…

— Hassanal Bolkiah

It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code…

— Stephanie Zacharek

In the past, we showed that we could play football, but Vladimir Petkovic has worked with us on the psychological side of…

— Granit Xhaka

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally…

— David F. Houston

Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in…

— Paris Reidhead

Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats…

— Dylan Thomas

“She is more memory than reality. She belongs to a time of teenage crushes, first kisses, crowded lecture halls and smoky pubs.…

— Michael Robotham

“A sunrise shows a new day has started, that whatever happened before is the past.”

— Shannon McCrimmon

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

— George Savile

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

— Anton Chekhov

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

— Jodi Picoult

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. —Santayana”

— William L. Shirer

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

— Isabelle Adjani

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

— Gregory Nunn

“Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.”

— Kris Kidd

Together we can, and must, make gun violence a thing of the past.

— Jasmine Crockett

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

— Federico Fellini

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

— Knute Rockne

Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

— Ogden Nash

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

— Iain Duncan Smith

Some people have so much potential, but they're letting their past hold them back in life.

— Sonya Parker

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

— Albert Einstein