Quotes About Past

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened — I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.