Quotes About Past

I have memories — but only a fool stores his past in the future.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future

Scholars tend to demand clear and irrefutable evidence for the existence of democratic institutions of any sort in the distant past. It's striking how they never demand comparably rigorous proof for top-down structures of authority. These latter are usually treated as a default mode of history: the kind of social structures you would simply expect to see in the absence of evidence for anything else.

Taking guidance from indigenous critics like Kandiaronk, we need to approach the evidence of the human past with fresh eyes.

The Holy Spirit gives freedom from the past, joy for the moment, and faith for the future.

Most art will disappear. The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us. Today always looks a bit of a jumble. We'll put up with rubbish from now, but not with rubbish from the past.

That's the problem with memories; You can visit them, but you can't live in them.

There is no past, memory paints it,' Ã¢â'¬Â the pope recited. " Ã¢â'¬ËœThere is no future, for hope shapes it. There is only the present, but it is always escaping us.

We go through our lives thinking we are living in the present when in truth we are living in the past and the future.

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

It makes sense to predict likely future performance from past performance. Indeed, we often don't have much else to go on. Unfortunately, however, the past can be an uncertain guide to the future.

11 There is no remembrance of former things [nobody remembers the past]; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after [neither will the future be remembered by those who come after it; in other words, nothing changes]. By the way, you can probably see that verses 9–11, above, could also be interpreted as saying, in effect, that nobody ever seems to learn from the past, which in many ways would be true of worldly societies and people.

ROMANS 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

You know, I read once that if you're sad, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. But if you're at peace, you're living in the present.

He had pored over old photographs,

Non c'è dispiacere più grande che ricordare la gioia passata nell'infelicità. 

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present.

We are the first species in the known history of three and a half billion years of life on earth with the capacity to control our own destiny. The prospect of designing our destiny remains excellent to the degree that we comprehend our evolutionary past. Only by examining the complex repertoire of human sexual strategies can we know where we came from. Only by understanding why these human strategies have evolved can we control where we are going.

So many things were new. Everything changed. The past would not hold and could not be held.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.