Past Quotes

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'

Composers are always going back to the past.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

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 fast changing world.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

I am very concerned that we have given up capabilities and methodologies that have worked in the past. I know they work and I'm concerned because in the future we may need these. So while it is the prerogative of the president to make that decision, I am concerned that in the future we may miss these and we may need them to protect American lives.

And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.