Past Quotes · Page 132

You can live in the past. If you're not too thrilled with your future.

— Jhiess Krieg

Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.

— Anonymous

“The past is a foreign country.” —L. P. Hartley”

— Annie Jacobsen

“You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.”

— Kirsten Hubbard

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

— Edwidge Danticat

Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God

— Billy Graham

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

— Alexander Pope

“Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

— Stephen Gardiner

“If you do not dream of, and reach for a different future, you'll wind up at your same past again.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always…

— Stefan Zweig

Having the perfect moment to break up with someone after they ask the dumbest question (and you'd swear they'd gone full retard)…

— Elise Garvin

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

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

“(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of…

— Valerie Martin

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no…

— Alice Walker

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet…

— Norman Mailer

“that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we become afraid. of what…

— Nafisa Haji

Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme…

— Paul Feyerabend

I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't…

— Hannah Kent

What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices…

— Emile Durkheim

The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of…

— George Orwell

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the…

— Cary Fowler

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to…

— Anonymous

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

— Edward Britton

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”

— Sanhita Baruah

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

— Lajos Kossuth

Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

— Truman Capote

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

— John Dryden

“You will find happiness if you just let go of the past.”

— Mila Duave

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

— Theodor Adorno

I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.

— Jessica Pare

To tell you the truth, ived just been avoiding everything, especially my past

— Teejay David

“We can't change out pasts. All we can change is the future.”

— Sylvain Reynard

There is no time of life past learning something.

— Ambrose

Never let your past get the best of you in the future.

— Robert Escalante

Sometimes in life you have to let go of the past,to move on in the future.

— Anonymous

We need to think about the future, not the past.

— David Dellinger

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

— Harry S Truman

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

— Dolores O'Riordan