Quotes About Past

A few weeks ago I went to a screening of 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' at Utopia. I'm not a very introspective person but when I get on that stage, it feels even more overwhelming than showing my films at the Cannes film festival. Because standing there, I'm so close to my past. I can see how far I've come.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

We didn't really have vacations when I was a child.

While the past asks only to be remembered, a woman's memory alters on her behalf and in her best interests. Memory - the vain old biddy - cannot resist penciling a few slight, cosmetic revisions in the margins of the past.

One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about that 'one that got away,' or you're recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine's Day, romanticizing the past isn't helpful - nor accurate.

Idealizing the reality of past romances won't do you any favors as you face Valentine's Day alone.

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Desserts were now only a dim memory.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of wilful blindness.

Yes, world history is indeed such an onion! But that peeling back of the onion's layers is fascinating, challenging—and of overwhelming importance to us today, as we seek to grasp our past's lessons for our future.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try to catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

Webster seemed to me either a man without a past, or a man eager not to have one.

un historiador serio y, como tal, un enemigo jurado de la industria de la memoria