Quotes About Past

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.

Yeah, I don't know how many people are aware of it, but Scarlett and I have a bit of a past as far as wrestling goes. We were both in Ring of Honor at the same time, and our paths crossed when she was managing Matt Taven.

Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present.

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.

I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.

If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future.

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

Memory is constantly on our lips because it no longer exists.

Car notre passé, qu'est-il d'autre qu'une suite de rêves ? Quelle différence y a-t-il entre se rappeler les rêves et se rappeler le passé ? Et c'est la fonction que remplit le livre.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

For first, when Pompey made severe laws for punishing and laying great fines on those who had corrupted the people with gifts, Cato advised him to let alone what was already passed, and to provide for the future; for if he should look up past misdemeanors, it would be difficult to know where to stop; and if he would ordain new penalties, it would be unreasonable to punish men by a law, which at that time they had not the opportunity of breaking.

We were heady with ideals, drunk with hopes of our languorous lope into a future that had learnt from its past.

No desperdicies el recuerdo del camino recorrido. Ello no retrasa vuestra carrera, sino que la dirige; el que olvida el punto de partida, pierde fácilmente la meta.

You cannot go back into the past and change what has happened, no matter what you do. But your actions can be a part of what did happen.