Quotes About Past

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.

As with the Trojans or the Tudors, there are many evergreen stories that we come back to again and again. I think history documentaries are as much about the present as they are the past.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I don't drink as much as I use to could.

I don't think you can erase history.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

When we allow a preconception to rule our behavior, we are actually allowing our past to control our present and future.

When we realize that the past is only information, we will have taken our first step towards freeing ourselves from it.

The things we are attached to are no more than shadows of the past. However, we do not recognize that, and as long as we hold onto them, they become a part of the present and follow us around

You only want to brawl. You want a fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes," said Jess.

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

Today, far continents have become suburbs. Even the moon has somehow come closer. But for all that, the past has not lost its power, and if within a lifetime a man changes his skin an infinite number of times--almost as often as his suits--still he does not change his heart: he has but one.

Classical science, the mythical science of a simple, passive world, belongs to the past, killed not by philosophical criticism or empiricist resignation but by the internal development of science itself.

Each society, as I've written elsewhere, betrays its own characteristic "time bias"—the degree to which it places emphasis on past, present, or future. One lives in the past. Another may be obsessed with the future.

Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into its description...The arrow of time is the manifestation of the fact that the future is not given, that, as the French poet Paul Valery emphasized, 'time is a construction'.

Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter its description.

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Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.

Man has made himself free, terribly and dizzyingly free. Religion and art are kept alive for the sake of sentimentality, as a conventional politeness toward the past, a benevolent solicitude of leisure's increasingly nervous citizens.

which of any two events is earlier and which later, combined with his consciousness of an instantaneous present that is continuously being transformed into a remembered past as it is replaced with an anticipated future.