Quotes About Past

Eestis on täpselt vastupidi. Siin on minevik olnud nii pikka aega nii masendav, nii ahistav, nii ränk, et nüüd, otse nüüd - eile, täna, homme - peavad sündima mehed ja naised, ideed ja teod, millega luuakse meie suurus, Eesti suurus. Ja mina tahan - ja teie peate tahtma - et meil, et Wikmani gümnaasiumil oleks selle toimumises oma austav osa. Ja selle toimumata jäämises oma häbi.

so every time you bring up that memory, you bring with it all the feelings and emotions you had at that time.

there are four large screens on the scoreboard showing the score, replays of the game and fan participation. Throughout the game, the video screens showed highlights of games played in the past as well.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

Ernie's past friendship. Your debt is to the living.

Today, as never before—the information media having become to enlightenment as the cereal aisle is to the supermarket—if you choose not to access the past, you are de facto free to rule it out of existence, at least so far as you might be concerned.

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

old lovers? Why didn't you tell me?

Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.

Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.

Would the tragic comedy of memory ever stop replaying?

You know what, Daddy? What you got for me, Melody? This place feels like from a long time ago. It feels like it's in the past tense.

Feels like a long time ago, but not so far in the past that I don't remember the way that Chicago cold slipped past your bones, I swear. That wind coming off the water? What?!

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

What is realised in my history is not the past definitive of what it was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

Historical reality has two sides. One is made ??up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.