Quotes About Past

Recuerda, solo el resultado pasado es el verdadero indicador del resultado futuro.

Many people fall in love with their suffering. Their past problems become a primary focus of their lives. They think about what happened all the time. They go through the day and even the night carrying on angry conversations with people who are not present, people who they feel have hurt them in the past.

General Lee ruled it out, not only because he was General Lee but also because he had never seen this war as the kind of struggle that could go on that way. He understood the cause he served with complete clarity. His South had meant neither revolution nor rebellion; it simply desired to detach itself and live in its own chosen part of an unchanging past, and Mr. Davis had defined it perfectly when he said that all his people wanted was to be let alone.

The general was more easy, and today he had guests at the luncheon table. They may have been oddly chosen, all things considered. They came out of the past, when it had been possible for General Burnside to have friends in the army. It did not seem possible now. The weight of command made him suspect the motives of all around him.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

Here's why: Past performance is not a good predictor of future returns. What does predict investment performance are the fees charged by the investment manager. The higher the fees you pay for investment advice, the lower your investment return. As our friend Jack Bogle likes to say: In the investment business, "You get what you don't pay for.

In reality, the pain we feel about a past event is created in the present

Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.

His heart definitely had a longer memory than his mind.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

He lives in his memories

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

until the image itself has grown distorted past all recognition save that of memory

traced far enough, past hope, back across belief, it ends always at desire

Biology is more like history than it is like physics. You have to know the past to understand the present. And you have to know it in exquisite detail.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!

My mother was a dark red head wrap. Her life had been heavier than the fire she carried on her back.     This is the meaning of the past, Boy. There were maps & scriptures carved into my palms, whole towns

It was the nature of things, of course. Life went on. The best you could do was to hold on to the memories that were important to you, so that even if everyone else forgot, you would remember.

that the wars of the past were slowly being forgotten. Shea believed that one could turn his back on the past and build a new world with the future, never understanding that the future was inextricably tied to the past, an interwoven tapestry of events and ideas that would never be entirely severed.

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

Put the past behind you and the future ahead where they belong and spend your time in the present with the rest of us.

Your past was your heritage and the foundation on which you were built. You couldn't start over. You could only repair and move on.