Quotes About Past

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

You can't come back to something that is gone.

We don't really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don't know what it might do in the future.

bear a collective responsibility to enforce our Constitution and to rectify past violations whose effects endure.

Haben die Götter das nicht wunderbar eingerichtet? Kaum hat man eine Nacht lang geschlafen, ist das, was vergangen ist, in die Ferne gerückt, der Kummer und die Sorge des Vortages ist gemildert. Das sanfte Licht der Sonne gibt einem neue Kraft und neuen Mut.«

leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down

It could have been so beautiful . . . how it was and how it will be, memory and fantasy

Looking back is easy for a while and then looking back gets murky.

History throws its shadow over the beginning

The present is a bully, always making us think the molten moment we inhabit is the most alarming ever, while the past tends to slip into that specious category of "simpler times.

I had some once. They didn't pan out. I don't have them anymore.

Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.

History is the enemy of memory.

I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:But whether this was false or honest dreamingI beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.

Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread of the time just before sleeping, the act of falling asleep itself, the perilous twilight of semi-awareness when the mind must struggle for coherence, when a siren or a cry in the street is the very sound of terror and the ticking of the clock is a steady reminder of death.

Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back." He turned away again, and I heard him mutter, "I need two drinks.

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

History is important because it teaches us about the past. And by learning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

En medio de toda la noche, la muerte —la muerte que ya había pasado y la que estaba por venir—, el beso parecía más poderoso que cualquier cosa que él y yo hubiéramos compartido alguna vez. • capítulo 15

Todo parece nuevo si uno ignora la historia. Muchos de los métodos que marchan bajo el estandarte del "cambio" han sido utilizados en el pasado ligeramente modificados.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by your past.

Somos produto de nosso passado, mas não precisamos ser prisioneiros dele.

Somos producto de nuestro pasado, pero no tenemos que ser sus prisioneros.

Assertions that the modern homosexual and modern gay subculture are significantly different from the past are based primarily upon ignorance of that past.