Past Quotes · Page 170

The past can hurt, but if learnt, the future might be better than the present.

— Daniyal Butt

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

— Swami Vivekananda

I create a new and more loving story to surround each event in my past.

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

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

— RVM

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

— Richey Edwards

Don't think what could of been, think what can be.

— Jaye Byrne

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

— Mason Cooley

I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more…

— Eckhart Tolle

In the past, I travelled with 'The Hero and the Crown' by Robin McKinley: I suffer from a fear of flying, and…

— Jesmyn Ward

Sometimes you have to face your past not to continue what you left off, but to simply make you realize how happy…

— Anonymous

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

— Kathrine Switzer

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their…

— Tulsi Gabbard

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

— Phyllis Schlafly

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a…

— Elvis Costello

Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he…

— Bob Newhart

As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition…

— Seth

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world…

— Sun Myung Moon

So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through…

— Margaret Atwood

Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy…

— Henry Gantt

The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly…

— Guy Standing

To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the…

— Joseph Hertz

Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at…

— Michael Cunningham

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

— Truman Capote

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

— John Hickenlooper

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

— Sophocles

“The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.”

— Anthony Liccione

Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were.

— Anonymous

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

— Kapil Dev

“How could you escape a past that was so determined to make you pay?”

— Andrew Davidson

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It’s a cat. Boy, you couldn’t slip anything past me tonight.

— Kim Harrison

The past is the past. Some things and some people need to left behind.

— Latest

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

— Dean Cavanagh

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

— Lawrence Lessig

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

— Marlon Brando