Quotes About Past

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past.

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

The German car industry has a clear vision of the necessity of stability in the continent that goes beyond selling cars. For Germany, the economy is an instrument in a much wider issue of stability in continental Europe and overcoming the mistakes of the past.

There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away.

For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I was probably a man with a wig and a frock coat in a past life!

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. If it's well written, it allows your imagination to run wild and draw inspiration from that.

The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

For better or for worse, my brother and I both have some Jungian leanings, so we're tempted to think that these bits and bobs of the past are knocking around in everyone's heads somehow to some degree, and they just need to be jiggled into the front of their head in the mind again.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

I have a terrible memory of my own past. I can barely remember my childhood. I have few memories from college and law school - though once I got married, I got the advantage of being able to consult my husband's memory.

I have great memories, but I'm not terribly nostalgic.

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.