Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We should never become so enamored with the future that we forget the value of the past. Alyssa Rosenberg” — D.S. Cahr Copy Share Image
As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
I was asked, 'Why do you think the male 'X Factor' winners haven't been successful in the past?' And I said, 'Because… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It… — Cunningham Geikie Copy Share Image
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I talk about past relationships in my book, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who… — Gigi Gorgeous Copy Share Image
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures. — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In the past, I bowled at players like Michael Atherton, Alec Stewart, Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick. — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
I found out this summer how to hook up my Xbox 360 in the hotel and get past security. It took me… — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
I've regretted things in my past, but when I think of all the things that made me me, the past is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People need to remember that I am the first black driver in F1, so I am obviously going to be different to… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It was Captain Cook who christened the Whitsunday Islands while sailing past them in 1770 on what he mistakenly believed was Whitsunday.… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven… — Shelley Duvall Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
If I have to return to London, I will try to make things in a different way in order so that happened… — Carlos Vela Copy Share Image
Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you… — Fabian Copy Share Image
It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent… — Kelly Price Copy Share Image
“Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
“The past, rich with it's pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize.” — Rukhsana Ahmad Copy Share Image
