Quotes About Past

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

But therein lies the logician's trap: past data from real life constitute a sequence of events rather than a set of independent observations, which is what the laws of probability demand.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.

Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.

The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken.

Most of us never examine the scripts handed to us by our past.

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present. It requires, however, going back in order to go forward. This takes us to the very heart of spirituality and discipleship in the family of God—breaking free from the destructive sinful patterns of our pasts to live the life of love God intends.

Looking to the past illumines the present. But make no mistake about it; it is painful. Because so few people do the hard work of going back in order to go forward, the symptoms of a disconnected spirituality are everywhere. The compartmentalization of our spirituality from the rest of our lives becomes necessary because there is so little integration.

Books that would have helped us understand our past, without which we are condemned to live in ignorance

I love history. It's so old." - Attributed to Peter Ustinov.

I have a warrant for your arrest on a matter a few years back

Everyone's running from something.

The ghosts followed us back.

Ve içimde geri dönmek korkusu var. Hiçbir ?ey hat?rlamak istemiyorum. Elimi cebime sokarken, bana iki gün evvelini hat?rlatacak bir kâ??t parças?na, bir ?eye rastlamaktan bile korkuyorum.

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

In time, only three days really matter: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Yesterday is all of the days that have come before today. Tomorrow is all of the days that will come after today. Three days are all that we have in which to live our lives.

Psychological determinism asserts that every thought and feeling we have and every action we perform is caused by events in the past.

The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything.

You cannot not know history.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

Do you have a mother?" "Naturally I used to have one," I said. "A father, too, if memory serves. Only somewhere along the way I seem to have lost them both. Careless of me.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

It had not done so then, and could not now