Quotes About Past

evolución del mercado solo le llegaba en forma de «noticias», que es como la prensa se refiere a las decisiones tomadas por otra gente en un pasado reciente.

I had come to experience time differently. The world I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited.

It's always the wrong bits of the past people want back.

You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead.

History is not the past - it is the method we have evolved to organize our ignorance of the past. It is the record of what's left on the record... It is no more 'the past' than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey.

History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Why are we so attached to the severities of the past?Why are we so proud of ourselves for having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.

There are moments when a memory moves right through you. You shy, you duck, you run; or else the past takes your fist and actuates it, without the intervention of will. Suppose you have a knife in your fist? That's how murder happens.

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

But there's no guarantee that the world will change the way you want it to. I think that's the danger of changing the past that the minister was talking about.

And I suppose that is what we want from our mothers: to maintain the world and, even if it is a lie, to proceed as though the world could be maintained. Whereas my father was obsessed with the past and the future, with returning to and remaking Libya, my mother was devoted to the present. For this reason, she was the truly radical force in my adolescence.

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him"?

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him?

A menudo me he preguntado si mi pasado es la razón por la que soy como soy, si eso me ha convertido en un monstruo.

First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I put dictatorships and velociraptors in the same category: leave them in the past, where they can serve as frightening object lessons for the present.

The tide will come in and there won't be any more footprints. It's like our lives, right? Whatever we do before this moment in time, we can't do over. We have no choice in life but to keep moving ahead.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.

She made the right choice for the girl she was then.

He has mistakes in his past. I have mistakes in mine. The fact that we actually are each other's mistakes is irrelevant!

No regrets. That was another of his trading rules. Never waste time thinking about what could have been.