Quotes About Past

As they ate, Morgan eyed the man sitting across from her. A while ago they'd been in the sleeping bag together and that hadn't worked out too well. Now they were sitting facing each other, and she didn't think that was much better.

History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where we have come from in order to better understand where we are heading.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Il se trouvait prisonnier du passé, enchaîné par des ombres !

I will even be able to free it from the power of gravity which attracts it to the future and to make it go back into the past.

That the reading of good books, is like the conversation with the honestest persons of the past age, who were the Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable.

engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts;

la lectura de todos los buenos libros es como una conversación con los mejores ingenios de los pasados siglos

People had a drive to immortalize their past, even the evil stuff, like Abu Ghraib or the Holocaust. They liked to take pictures, keep journals, because they believed in what they were doing. No one, Naomi had learned, did evil without believing it was right at the time. Maybe this was why it was nearly impossible to talk them out of it?

It is meaning that drives most people forward into time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.

It is meaning that drives most people forward in time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.

There comes a point when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.

There comes a time when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.

Hayden] white argues instead for histories that avoid narrative closure and that highlight the contingency of the past ... He points especially to chronicle - a form marked by a lack of closure - as a useful alternative to the narrative. In a chronicle, historians offer an interpretation of the past but simply end the account when they reach the present.

At a recognizable point in the research process, looking at more sources does not provide more insight. When we have consulted enough material to identify patterns and developments, then … we have the mastery necessary to offer an interpretation of the past

We have a responsibility to remember, celebrate, and come to the aid of those women who once gave of themselves on our behalf . . . We cannot afford to forget or trample on our feminine leaders of the past.

the true horror of the world: it is that once a thing is done, it can never be undone. A universe of wishing can't uncrush a bug, or unspeak a word, or erase even the tiniest action from the past's ledger. The past is fixed and unalterable, a tyrant, and none of us has any power against it.

The past is made of memory, the future of imagination. Neither has any existence outside the realm of thought." Rupert Spira, from The Ashes of Love

With one eye on the past, some see which they cannot see, whilst others in the future see that which cannot be seen. Why go so far, look closer! What is freedom? The day is here! This is the hour, the moment; and this moment is who we are and that is that. Forever flowing, the eternal hour reveals our insignificance. In a single gasp we live and die, so size the day, for the day is simply who you are.

aunque mi papá no crea en la nostalgia ni en el rencor «porque el tiempo no existe», y el pasado está a punto de pasar, y el presente es el futuro: 3:00 p.m.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

The best thing about the future is that it's in front of you. The best thing about the past is that it lies behind.

Most problems we face in life, as I have said already, happen in our minds. Furthermore, problems generally exist in our concept of the past and the future. The past and the future don't exist except in our minds.