Quotes About Past

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

In the past, I've been a selfish player. I'll definitely admit that.

There are not so many songs written about love today like there were in the past. It's all changed, but that's why my songs still last as big favorites today.

In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing.

The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

In history we studied the bog man. Do you remember the bog man? I was absolutely fascinated by this. When something brings the past into sharp focus as a child it creates an indelible impression.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Nobody lived in Eden anymore.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

we are all part a continuum, repeat after me, the future is in the past and the past is in the present

we are all part of a continuum, repeat after me, the future is in the past and the past is in the present

her mission has begun – to make history fun and relevant because we need to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and to deepen our understanding of who we are as the human race, don't we, class?