Past Quotes

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past.

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.