Past Quotes · Page 387

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

But more important, I think, is the criticism bin Laden has made publicly over the past 10 years that Muslim governments cannot…

— Michael Scheuer

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

— Ryan Tedder

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience,…

— Kehinde Wiley

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

— Carl von Clausewitz

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and…

— Lauren Oliver

The past is the father of the present.

— Agatha Christie

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

— George Eliot

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered.…

— Steven Erikson

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for…

— Douglas Coupland

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring…

— Mary Parker Follett

I told you I try not to live in the past and nothing could change the fact that my mum was gone.…

— Rick Riordan

I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well…

— Marcus Mariota

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

— Otto Frank

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling…

— Bradford Cox

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake…

— Bob Iger

at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the…

— Janet Fitch

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as…

— Steve Earle

We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to…

— Gay Hendricks

I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's…

— Michael Leiter

I never think about the future, which is weird. I don't think about the past, either.

— Ruel

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written,…

— Harold Brodkey

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

— Vernon Lee

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past…

— Cressida Cowell

Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future

— Anonymous

You don't have to hold on to your past. If you can find a way to overcome the bad parts, great things…

— Michaela DePrince

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of…

— Elizabeth Taylor

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five…

— Charlie Munger

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27,…

— Isabella Rossellini

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

— Isaac Asimov

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in…

— Stephen Ambrose

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

— Gayle Forman

It doesn't matter where you came from. All that matters is where you're going.

— Bob Marley

When your name gets mentioned with the great guys that played this game in the past, that's very big.

— Frank Gore

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories…

— Ellen G. White

I like to wear clothes that have some kind of relationship with the past.

— Lucy Worsley

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe…

— Frederick Forsyth

“Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture.”

— Mick Herron

He stands behind me and gives me little pushes. We sit there in silence watching the guys goof off and Heath take…

— Jade

Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the…

— Steven Biko