Quotes About Past

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

you can't embrace— you can't empower—the person you want to be in your future until you've thoroughly embraced the person you've been in your past.

Information about the future is much more valuable and interesting than information about the past.

History was always present for Churchill. He understood, perhaps, that the essence of history is the present, for the present is nothing other than what the past has made it, only those most essential elements of the past being retained in the present. That is what makes them essential. One's understanding of the past is therefore a constituent part of one's understanding of current events and a guide as to how to act in it.

Theistic evolutionists...deny what advocates of intelligent design affirm, namely, that the past activity of a designing intelligence, is detectable or discernible in living systems.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

You said this place was haunted," Shooting Glasses tells her. "By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside

The saying is actually 'Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

We all become history at some point or another, right?

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

History has a clear and distinct voice, but it does not force itself upon us uninvited. History

The past has but one path, the present has many and the future none.

Never mind that young Bill had a less-than-spotless past when it came to computer freebieism, had been chastised for manipulating accounts on a time-sharing system as an eighth grader and investigated by Harvard University for running up hour upon hour of academic computer time while developing that very same for-profit BASIC.

You might say that the North won the war and the South won the peace. But that's not entirely accurate. The North won progress. The South won heritage. The North won the future. The South won the past. And it is not clear at all which is more powerful. The reconciliation is "how we chose to lie to each other for a hundred and fifty years,

For the Creator, the past is never lost, never beyond recovery—because it can always be reclaimed by weaving it into a wider pattern of ultimate goodness so that even the most horrendous disasters of life may come to play a significant part in achieving the intended purpose of Creation. In this way, the past can be redeemed.

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

We are exactly what our history made us to be.

Forgiveness does not change the past, that's for sure, but it does change the future.

Concurrent time is a state of time where all the happenings occur at the same time. The creations of the present are influenced by both the past and the future actions and all the three interact where even a future event can change what can happen in the present.

I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!

Transference: treating, responding to, and/or having feelings about someone in the present as though they were someone important from the past.