Past Quotes

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.

Everyone has a past.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.