Past Quotes · Page 123

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

— Cynthia Weil

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

— Erica Jong

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

— Harold Prince

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

— David McCullough

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

— Confucius

Some of the most beautiful futures are built from the rubble of the most broken pasts.

— Anonymous

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

— Emma Lazarus

Sometimes you just have to look back at your past and smile about how far you've come.

— Anonymous

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

— Harold Pinter

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the…

— Nas

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

— John Maynard Keynes

When I've been asked in the past about my dream role, I always expressed how much I'd like to be a superhero.

— Diane Guerrero

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here…

— Gautama Buddha

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

— Eckhart Tolle

India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

— Andre Gide

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in…

— Doc Hastings

I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs,…

— Margaret MacMillan

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles…

— Art Malik

“I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what…

— Colleen Hoover

In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and…

— Matthieu Ricard

The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position…

— Werner Heisenberg

Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in…

— Mark Van Doren

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

— Zig Ziglar

The journey of our past has lead us to the present and will educate us for our future.

— David Hutchinson

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

— Dan B. Allender

If you think it's necessary to judge me by my past, don't get mad when I put you there.

— Wiz Khalifa

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

— Jeff Bezos

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

— Dianna Agron

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

— Byron Katie

I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

— Park Shin-hye

People like to bring up your past when they are intimidated by your present and future.

— Anonymous

You dwell too much on the past, you forget that you've got to take care of the present.

— Karl-Anthony Towns

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

— Phyllis Diller

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

— Mick Jagger

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

— Kenneth Branagh

Don't forget about the past, learn from it, or the history have a ways of repeating it.

— Ngan Hoai Tran Vo

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.

— Nicholas Sparks