Quotes About Past

The past is immutable. Don't let it distract you from your current goals and ambitions.

O kas yra Laikas? - paklaus? gnomas. -To aš negaliu paaiškinti, ir niekas tau nepasakys, kas yra Laikas. Sako, kad Laikas susideda iš trij? skirting? dalyk?: praeities, dabarties ir ateities.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

The past can never change but future is still in your power

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

This woman was the catalyst that had jarred him out of his mere existence and dragged him back into life. She had made him feel, even made him hope, both dangerous for a man like him with a past like his.

A gentleman would leave." He chuckled at that, his gaze locking with hers. "You and I are way past that, Annie.

There is nevertheless a chance that we can break free from the imprisoning past and individually train ourselves to control this reactive mechanism in such a way that the old patterns are not repeated; new things truly can happen, and real changes can in fact take place. This dawning clarity is, in essence, the path of yoga.

We will never lose sight of our heritage, for if we forget where we came from we will lose our way forward.

Legends are built and evolve in the past. They're not the present. I don't like categories either, in any event. I prefer individual -- I mean, if people have respect for you or admire your work or whatever, I mean, you know, it's like they say, this one is the second Garbo, that one is the second Bogart. There are no seconds. You are what you are, everyone is an individual.

If you consider poetry in all its fire of human becoming, at the summit of an inspiration which delivers the new world to us, what can be the use of a biography which tells us the past, the heavy past of the poet?

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.

When we're rapping on these records, we're either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now in the struggle. It's not necessarily what we're going through ourselves.

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep engaging with it, and often that means not thinking about movies and thinking about other things.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Don't ask me about Real Madrid - it's just the past.

I was very young in the past at Arsenal, at Real Madrid as well.

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.