Quotes About Past

Mais je veux me rappeler. Je veux me rappeler celui que j'ai été et que sont beaucoup d'autres.

History is the synthesis of all social sciences turned towards the past.

Emigrating doesn't just offer you the chance to find a better future - it also allows you to choose the past that you like the most.

Tiene importancia el día de mañana? No, porque aún no ha llegado. ¿Tiene importancia el día de ayer? No, porque ha pasado ya. Pero el día de hoy, que es importantísimo, ya se escribe con hache.

Yo creía en una historia para el saber. Una historia que escuchara la melodía del pasado, una historia abierta a los más variados temas de la vida humana, una historia que se ocupara del pasado sin leerlo como una anticipación necesaria del presente, sin imponerle las categorías del presente y sobre todo sin convertirla en un instrumento de manipulación política.

Para que el envejecimiento se acepte sabiamente, así como las circunstancias adversas por las que se va pasando, la personalidad ha de estar bien estructurada, sobre un pasado positivo y un entorno sociofamiliar grato. Hay

A infância é uma batalha perdida.

No todo el mundo sabe que a Veracruz y a sus playas lejanas no pienso en la vida nunca volver. Fui feliz allí, el mes pasado, en noche de luna llena, en Los Portales, ni antes ni después de esa noche, en el último mes de julio de mi juventud. Pero no pienso en la vida nunca volver, pues sé muy bien que la nostalgia de un lugar sólo enriquece mientras se conserva como nostalgia, pero su recuperación significa la murte.

y la calidez de Nueva York y de ciertos momentos de un pasado no vivido y de todo aquello que, por motivos que en general se le escapan, le da una alegría tan misteriosa como necesaria para seguir viviendo.

El pasado, decía Proust, no sólo es fugaz, es que no se mueve de sitio. Con París pasa lo mismo, jamás ha salido de viaje. Y encima es interminable, no se acaba nunca.

For certain fortunate people there is something which transcends all classifications of behaviour, and that is awareness; something which rises above the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than games, and that is intimacy.

we shared a common interest in how the past effects people—some let it decide who they are, while others make it part of what they will do.

the past effects people—some let it decide who they are, while others make it part of what they will do.

Well, they better get used to it. It's payback for what they did to England back in the 1890s.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

La distruzione del passato, o meglio la distruzione dei meccanismi sociali che connettono l'esperienza dei contemporanei a quella delle generazioni precedenti, è uno dei fenomeni più tipici e insieme più strani degli ultimi anni del Novecento. La maggior parte dei giovani alla fine del secolo è cresciuta in una sorta di presente permanente, nel quale manca ogni rapporto organico con il passato storico del tempo in cui essi vivono.

Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the present crowds out the echoes and lessons of the past. It would be a shame if that were to happen with respect to the fur trade. It is a seminal part of who we are as a nation, and how we came to be.

Americans have an outsized tendency to romanticize the past, to see previous eras as magically halcyon and idyllic, and of no era would this be truer than the eighteenth century in Britain.

Future generations would be convinced that nothing good could ever have existed in a country that produced such evil. They would think only of these evils. It would be as if these unleashed dark forces had grotesquely marched like devils on dead horses, backward through the gash in the present, and had destroyed the German past too.

A cultura é memória muscular institucional, que não se baseia em como a organização aspira a atuar, mas em como realmente atuou no passado.

In most cases, the answer was no; success was driven by decisions the team had made in the past. None of its current initiatives were having any impact. But this was obscured because the company's gross metrics were all "up and to the right.