The past is our very being.

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

Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects…

— Jia Zhangke

“My past is what God expects me to use to help others through their present.”

— Toni Sorenson

Never stress over people in your past...There's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

— Anonymous

When you continue to dwell on the past, there's no chance for a future. History repeats itself, thus, it's ok to LOOK back at…

— Anonymous

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

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

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

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 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

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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

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

— Condoleezza Rice

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really…

— Kelly Link