Quotes About Past

He knew that he'd accepted the past, but he did not relish its return. Out here, he was safe from it, or so he'd thought.

New significance had come to the tumbled ruins; I walked a landscape of the past, along an avenue of spiritual fires.

Despite its concessions to modernity, the land still retained the grandeur of the past and a lot of its magic.

The messiness of the past quarter hour distressed him. He disliked overt violence.

To this day I don't understand this country well. The cheery optimism. The lack of concern about the past. The openness to strangers who simply show a smile and give a firm handshake

because none has survived. In those days the best stone

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

The real story starts somewhere in the past. Chapter 5 First thing I do when I get home from

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

I had never had a lover so unafraid of a future with me—and not just unafraid, but determined on it. The past didn't matter to Matthew because in the past, we had not been together—and this was a belief, like some religious beliefs, I suspected might benefit me if I shared it.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn't somehow within ourselves and among each other.

Sometimes, with vocalese, I'm dealing with something, a great solo from the past, which is so iconic I can't presume to change it or mess with it.

If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.