Quotes About Past

history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains

What actually happened in the past is gone- history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains.

In all these cases, we find that because of the way ancient writers write about, and rewrite, the past, it is often impossible to tell the difference between what we would call history on the one hand and midrash, legend, or expansion on the other. Perhaps the distinction is our problem: perhaps for ancient readers the notion of what really happened is not crucial.

I love history, Tom. All those old things people dig up. Just ordinary things that were once used by ordinary people, but made special by time.

Ni ska bli en del av historien, eftersom historia är allt ni bryr er om.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

Mrs Bartholomew did not cry, because she had done all her crying for that so long ago.

I want to experience only the moment, not the looming certainty that I will lose that moment, not the certain awareness that, ultimately, this moment must slip from present to past, only the joy of the moment and the graze of memory.

Peut-être d'ailleurs aime-t-il entendre cette voix parce que précisément il ne peut comprendre les mots qu'elle prononce, et qu'ainsi il est sûr qu'ils ne le blesseront pas, qu'ils ne lui diront pas ce qu'il ne veut pas entendre, qu'ils ne poseront pas de questions douloureuses, qu'ils ne viendront pas dans le passé pour l'exhumer avec violence et le jeter à ses pieds comme une dépouille sanglante.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Yo soy una fuerza del pasado

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

I was always obsessed with ancient Egypt, but any time you go back to wouldn't be as good for women as now - so it might be a quick visit.

There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether it's safe to visit someone in a nursing home. But there are ways to deploy immunity information to help us understand our own health status and keep us safer from Covid, without surrendering privacy.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

My personal style at this point in my life is more audio; it's more driven on less visual and more musicality. But because of my upbringing, my fabulous mentors and teachers that I've had throughout my dance journey or career, I also possess a style that is of the past. It was just a matter of me reaching back.

STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.

I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.