Quotes About Past

Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated.

silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.

as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.

because I believe that each generation should have a chance to see a giant figure of the past from the perspective of its own time and circumstances.

What's past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don't bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action! United States Army colonel, Vietnam, mid-1960s

I found that if you spend all your time regretting the past, you forfeit the inner peace your soul needs to survive.

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.

That was a long time, an abyss into which Cecily had fallen.

metrosexual for this folly? This was where he had died. I was reminded

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.

Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

In my days, players were only thinking about publicity during holiday and on rest days.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

For a gut punch of nostalgia, consider that Saturday morning cartoons are now largely a thing of the past.

Driving to set for 'The Rig', the route went right past my old secondary school. Every morning when I was going to work, I was passing Leithy and thinking: 'Oh my God, there's where Billy Gilfillan punched me in the mouth' or whatever.

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.