The past doesn't define who you are, it just gives you the…

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You can think about it, wonder what went wrong, over analyze the situation but the fact remains... it's the past, just let it go.

— Rashida Rowe

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

— Condoleezza Rice

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt…

— Rose Namajunas

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only…

— Tom Vilsack

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

— Mason Cooley

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

— Bayard Taylor

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…

— Jonathan Swift

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for.

— Mike Faist

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply…

— Pierre Trudeau

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

— Phil Zimmermann

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

— Nicola Sturgeon