Quotes About Past

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

The thing I do miss about the way some sequels were in the past was that each film felt like its own unique, complete tone. Now, sequels are tonal facsimiles of the ones before them, like a television series, whereas back in the past sequels would often be radically different from the ones before.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned.

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

I've ventured into my past life and have experienced it. What I was in the previous life and why I've taken birth in this world, I believe in all of this because I've seen it on my own.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.

I am part of another film by Abhimanyu titled 'Hullor.' There is also a comedy flick 'Bhoot Chakra Private Limited' by Haranath Chakraborty, where three friends embark on an adventure with a machine created by one of their grandfathers, which can see the past and hunt ghosts.

I still feel it was a privilege to be a part of this team the past years, that I helped make Barca the best team in the world.

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt a new lifestyle.

When I was growing up, there were 13 children - it was different times then.

I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.

I had directed some tele films years ago.

The only thing I wanted to change in the past was being a little bit more disciplined on the defensive end.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.