Past Quotes
11277 quotes by 6206 authors
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history…
— Hannah Arendt
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the…
— Karen Armstrong
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
— Brooks Atkinson
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to…
— David Attenborough
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that…
— Sai Baba
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I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning,…
— Jensen Ackles
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through…
— Sai Baba
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what…
— Lauren Bacall
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
— Michelle Bachelet
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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms…
— Michelle Bachelet
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
— Lord Acton
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of…
— Lord Acton
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
— David Bailey
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
— Pearl Bailey
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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
— George Ball
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