Quotes About Past

The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.

We all know that history cannot be undone. But let me assure you that we Austrians know that, because of our history, we have a great responsibility.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.

If I have found favor in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore, shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.

What you are trying to let go of...is already gone.

Looking forward is the future, standing where you are is the present. looking back is the past. A memory is a piece of the past snipped and played as a short movie or story.

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.

Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.

I can't stand comparisons to the past. It doesn't matter what we did in previous seasons.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

I have a standup I do in gay bars, and it's filthy. I have to assess the crowd. If it's an all-gay crowd, I'll dip into the stories of my sordid past.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.