Past Quotes

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that's an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we've been preparing in the past.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I'm attracted to the past.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.