Past Quotes - page 4

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. (Willa Cather)
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? View quote
Robert Browning
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. View quote
Gough Whitlam
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. View quote
Dian Fossey
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. I'm not about to change now. View quote
Beverly Sills
You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. View quote
Richard Bach
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. View quote
Marcus Garvey
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. View quote
Ralph Ellison
I like men who have a future and women who have a past. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution. (Glenn Beck)
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. View quote
Marianne Williamson
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. View quote
George Orwell
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred. View quote
George Burns
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. View quote
H. G. Wells
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. View quote
Golda Meir
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. (Marina Abramovic)
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. View quote
Evan Esar
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. View quote
Charles Dickens
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. View quote
L. P. Hartley