Quotes About Past

Sethe,' he says, 'me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.

we can't use someone else's irresponsibility in the past as an excuse for our irresponsibility in the present. If

We've always lived in the past in Selma, and we still do. But the past has changed on us. It included a lot of stories it didn't used to.

Silence over Europe's recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future.

History is not written as it was experienced, nor should it be. The inhabitants of the past know better than we do what it was like to live there, but they were not well placed, most of them, to understand what was happening to them and why.

However, there is something worse than idealizing the past—or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. Most of what it has to offer is discomforting, even disruptive—which is why it is not always politically prudent to wield the past as a moral cudgel with which to beat and berate a people for its past sins.

Schopnost evokovat Hitlera, OsvÄ›tim nebo Mnichov má své pÃ…â"¢ednosti: alespo? se tak sou?asnost dovolává minulosti, místo aby ji zcela ignorovala. Dnes to ?iníme amatérsky a stále více zp?sobem, kterým sami sobÄ› Å¡kodíme, ale aspo? to dÄ›láme. Nemáme se tÄ›chto aktivit vzdát, nýbrž provádÄ›t je s vyÅ¡Å¡í mírou historické informovanosti a vnímavosti.

Silence over Europe's recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future. Today - in the wake of painful public debates in almost every other European country - it seems somehow fitting (and in any case unavoidable) that Germans, too, should at last feel able openly to question the canons of well intentioned official memory.

We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.

Mientras contemplábamos el fósil, sentí por un momento que su espiral me absorbía y me hacía retroceder cada vez más lejos en el tiempo hasta que el pasado se perdía en su centro.

You can't erase your past. And as long as you have a past, you're just like everyone else. You have to learn to live with that. It matters...eventually the choices you make today will be part of that past. So think about it, and decide how you want to live.

Si bien en el presente el pasado ya ha sucedido, es preciso extremar la prudencia para no poner en peligro lo presente a través de lo pasado al hacerlo presente>>

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

You can't make them unhappen. You can't just leave them behind, because once they've happened, they're part of you, part of your past, and their memories become part of your present, and their consequences become part of your future. Things that happen become you. And you can never leave yourself behind.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

For those of you who have childhood memories with pain or loss in them, it probably doesn't take much to recall those grievances and grudges. But as we look at the power of confronting the truth about your past, I hope that you (...) can avoid the waste before the days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months turn into years. You can take control. You can avoid those wasted years. And it's never too late to start.

As Sarah Maza has echoed in her own work, "Trying to fit a scenario from the past onto one in the present can be disastrous: 'We will liberate Iraq, as we did Europe!' 'Don't go for a diplomatic solution—remember Munich!'"19

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.

Native Americans considered the grizzly another kind of human being, a creature from the mythic past, a survivor from the dawn of creation.

How I wish I could leave or forget all my dead.

how much of what he told me of his past was true and how much he made up to hold my interest.

In green heaven's fields I saw the sickle of the new moon Remembered by sowing and by harvest, And said: O Kismet, you sleep and the sun blossoms The reply: Do not be as hopeless as the past. She repeated the last line: 'Do not be as hopeless as the past.