Quotes About Past

You can't rewrite history, undo the past, or predict the future.

Nostalgia is history without guilt.

Yet this points to a paradox of institutionalized nostalgia: the stronger the loss, the more it is overcompensated with commemorations, the starker the distance from the past, and the more it is prone to idealizations.

In many campaigns, one candidate or another is asked to answer for comments he or she made in the past. The answer is usually gibberish - 'That was a long time ago,' or 'I was trying to say something else.'

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that.

I still like to play songs from my Silk Route days at concerts.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

I was afraid of the sophomore slump even before our first record came out. It was a very real fear because I'd watched so many bands I'd loved in the past not deliver. I knew it was a very real thing. I didn't know why it happens, but I'd been thinking about it a lot.

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

I can only say sorry for the past. I can't change it.

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.

I've written a soulful record but it's informed by my sort of indie guitar past.

Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander idea, an idea that shared memory is essential to being human.

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

No tears come, only memories. Memories and regrets.

No teas come, only memories. Memories and regrets.

Not afraid to write about my past to inspire your future

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door

We're the summation of our histories, so if this guy is truly falling in love with you, he's falling for your past as much as he's falling for your present.