Quotes About Past

The greatest tie of all is language . . . Words are the only things that last forever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.'204

But data are about the past, and strategic inflection points are about the future.

But today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.

I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then past pain...for me the traumas of the past are mercifully far away. The pleasures of the past however, are tough...the worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idolizes or deplores.

I was wandering in time, and entered a door to the past just before it closed over.

a memory from one's youth is a lovely thing. It's not easy to get rid of such a memento. Even if now it's passé and pompously banal.

It was as you said: what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

But he suddenly knew the truth. He knew it. He knew what she used to be. What she remembered, what she couldn't forget, what she lived with. Who she really was before she had become a sorceress.

Cada momento do tempo carrega em si o passado, o presente e o futuro. Cada momento do tempo carrega em si a eternidade. Entende? - Não. - Não faz mal.

what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

To zabawne, ?e próbuj?c upora? si? z czasem, zazwyczaj wracamy do minionego, do tego, co ukszta?towane, do gotowej formy. Wyobra?nia nie potrafi niczego wymy?li?. Zawieszona w pró?ni spada jak kamie? albo zajmuje si? sob?, co koniec ko?ców wychodzi na jedno.

Widz? przesz?o?? wyra?niej ni? tera?niejszo??. Przecie? to, co jest nabiera sensu dopiero, gdy minie.

I never thought of the future as any kind of solution. The future is always the refuge of fools. It arrives, and they have to explain why it didn't arrive the way it was supposed to, or prove that this was exactly what they predicted. That's why I prefer to drink alone or with friends and wait for the past to take us into its possession. (page 122)

Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

From this moment forward, I will accept responsibility for my past. I understand that the beginning of wisdom is to accept the responsibility for my own problems and that by accepting responsibility for my past, I free myself to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.

The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe

A nation that has forgotten the quality of leadership it took to make a civilization great in the past is not likely to insist on greatness in its leaders today.

the past is what actually happened. History is merely what someone wrote.

But if our mornings are faced with courage and wisdom, the past need not be lived again.

forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.

The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have truly changed. Remember, forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and cna be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands and must be earned.