Quotes About Past

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today's foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is new and different.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason: evil is not just a thing of the past.

The only way the past can survive and maintain its continuity is through the constant demand to experience the same thing over and over. That is why life has become a bore. Life has become boring because we have made of it a repetitive thing. So what we mistakenly call the present is really the repetitive past projecting a fictitious future. Your goals, your search, your aspirations are cast in that mold.

Ich kann doch nicht verantwortlich sein für das, was war. Ich bin mitverantwortlich für das, was jetzt geschieht.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory

What were you worried about this time last year? Can't remember

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.

I've done this before.

Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.

Forgiveness does not mean the cancellation of all consequences of wrong doing. It means the refusal on God's part to let our guilty past affect His relationship with us.

Trust comes easily when you recognize that the person you love isn't the same as the people from your past.

The Gita reminded him of the joker of Madna. "If thou wilt not fight thy battle battle of life because in selfishness thou art afraid of the battle, thy resolution is in vain: nature will compel thee. Because thou art in the bondage of Karma, of the forces of thine own past life.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

So happy ending all round, more or less. I know you're relieved. But much as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we are sitting down to the feast.

People with BPD spend a great deal of their emotional energy worrying about past pain or potential future problems. "If I do that, this will happen." Dwelling on the past or the future prevents you from focusing on the present.

The wise person is the one who, like the child, lives entirely in the present, unburdened by the memories of the 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?