Quotes About Past

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.

I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.

What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell.

Gone are those days where I would probably work for five shifts in a day.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

We have loyalty at Arsenal, and players have shown that in the past.

It's awful when everything's before your time.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

All my ex-boyfriends, bar one, are my best friends.

It's true, in the past there was interest from Barcelona, but I'd have been a ball boy there.

For me the French team belongs to the past.

Remember when you see the stars that you are looking back in time millions of years. The past is present now and here.

She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

Alluding to the construction, at the Tidal Basin, of a memorial to Thomas Jefferson (it was to be dedicated in 1943), Ickes linked past and present. "Genius, like justice, is blind

His experience of the past two decades in foreign policy had also taught him that time often resolved the issues of the hour.

She has embarrassingly inquired, of her children, whether there's a woman in his life, and has rejoiced at hearing no. Not because she doesn't want him to be happy, not because she has any right or even much inclination to be jealous anymore, but because it means there's some shadow of a chance that he still thinks, as she does more than ever, that they were not just the worst thing that ever happened to each other, they were also the best thing.

Once a killer, always a killer.

Whatever chemistry she and Jason had had was still there, if only in the form of regret about never really having acted on it.

Guilt wants to cover all the bases, be everywhere at once, reach into the past to tweak, neaten and repair. Guilt like Tourettic utterance flows uselessly, inelegantly from one helpless human to another, contemptuous of perimeters, doomed to be mistaken or refused on delivery.

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Our strengths are not our own until they are freed of the burden of having to heal the past.