Past Quotes · Page 129

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

— Lou Reed

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

— William Shatner

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Don't let your past dictate who you are but rather let it be part of who you will become.

— Anonymous

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

— Tom Hiddleston

If the past was what we were meant to see...Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.

— RVM

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

— Alexander Pope

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

— Robert Hass

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

— Stanley Baldwin

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

— Greg Mortenson

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

— Martin Seligman

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

— Alice Munro

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

— Alan Lightman

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

— Antoine Fuqua

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future…

— Charles Dickens

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the…

— Cary Elwes

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have…

— Pearl Bailey

US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number…

— David Petraeus

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon…

— Malcolm X

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

— William Wordsworth

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.

— James Jebbia

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self.

— Robert Tew

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

— Vladimir Horowitz

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

— Chiang Kai-shek

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

— Thomas Carlyle

“There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.”

— Lisa Gardner

If you don't cherish past experiences, you cannot learn from them and you cannot move on.

— Hannah Peel

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

— Buzz Aldrin

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

— Deepak Chopra

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

— Alexander the Great

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.

— Luol Deng

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

— James Frey