Past Quotes

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
George Steine
Jane austen, pride and prejudice - think only of the past as its remembrance gives...
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
Anna mary robertson moses - a strange thing is memory, and hope one looks...
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Watley
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski
Harry s truman - most of the problems a president has to face have...
The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasgow
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
John Milton
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
Charles E. Jefferson
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Oswald Chambers
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
Danger past, God forgotten.
Scottish Prove
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osle
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
William Wordsworth
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Frederick Henry Hedge
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Jeseph Joubert
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan McKinnon
The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.
Israel Zangwill
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferbe
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy