Quotes About Past

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

I love historical references.

My missus says I can never remember anything as a kid. I always say, I put a line through anything that happened back then.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

Because I'm my parents' daughter, and get attention from things I've done in the past, that probably goes over people's heads.

Because I dieted so much in the past, I just can't diet again. It's something I don't want to do and I don't even know if I am capable of. I think it's a much healthier and happier way to live.

Sometimes my past is extraordinarily heavy. That's when I scream and cry until I feel like I can breathe again.

I was a normal height back in the day.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

I've actually met quite a few of my heroes from the past.

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account of history.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Strange dim memories, which will not abide identification, often, through misty windows of the past, look out upon me in the broad daylight, but I never dream now. It may be, notwithstanding, that, when most awake, I am only dreaming the more! But when I wake at last into that life which as a mother her child, carries life in its bosom, I shall know that I wake, and shall doubt no more. I wait; asleep or awake, I wait.

The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.

Y si el pásado y el mundo exterior sólo existen en nuestra mente y, siendo la mente controlable, también puede controlarse el pasado y lo que llamamos realidad?