Quotes About Past

Si yo no he dicho que no me horrorizara —se justificó David—. Lo que he dicho es que ya pasó. Hay que olvidarlo. Ocurrió una vez y el mundo aprendió la lección. Ya no volverá a ocurrir.

we were brave before memory.

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

But we can't escape into the future like we can escape into the past. So those of us who are not certain of things, and there are an awful lot of us, often rush back to the past. And each one has a particular past he prefers to the present. Sometimes I feel that any past is preferable to the present.

A central idea in Adlerian psychology is that individuals are always striving toward a goal. Whereas Freud saw us as driven by what was in our past, Adler had a teleological view—that we are driven by our goals, whether they are conscious or not. The

More and more, he found landscape and the landmarks within it sucking him back into past conversations, ghost feelings, old ambiences. It went beyond that, though. Even without the power of an evocative image as a trigger, he was able to spend whole hours – sometimes longer – swimming in a vanished event or afternoon.

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

I like to draw from experiences in my past, but that alone is quite hard and complicated, because I don't want to say anything incriminating or too offensive, but I want to give people an insight into my life and how it was.

But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

I would have liked the old days.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

Remixes also appeal to the older generation who get to revisit their past through these songs and after all, music is loved by all, so the more music, the happier people are.

What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

I really listened to a lot of oldies. I didn't really listen to anything that was modern until I was 11 or 12.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

Movies by Carlos Saura and others had ghosts, memories from the past, that they used to make a political point. Things you couldn't talk about openly, you could speak of through ghosts.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.