Quotes About Past

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

It's not easy, especially for a German national team player who did great things in the past and maybe is struggling. That's why I think most of the German national team play abroad because if you don't play for Bayern Munich and you don't always win, it's difficult.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

I'm happy with all of my past outfits, as they have felt right at the time, and your style always evolves.

I'm pretty sure we've all had a situation where a certain ex or person finds their way back in your life. I've realized that it's not about dwelling over it and overthinking.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don't use nostalgia to be kitschy.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

You can bury the past but it always seems to come back, one way or another.

Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell us more about the past than ruined walls and broken pots.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.