Past Quotes

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
Lou Reed

Life, Future, Short

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
Susan Orlean

Music, Found, Musical

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
David Duchovny

Life, Future, Focus

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight

Basketball, College, Ridiculous

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
Ang Lee

Movies, Hate, Made

My past is a bit checkered.
Kid Rock

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Together, Put

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Future, Mind, Human

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Johan Huizinga

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
LL Cool J

Dreams, Fear, After

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble

Future, Forward, Dark

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Margaret Sanger

Medical, Today, Woman

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
Hannah Arendt

Nature, History, Long

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan Sontag

Person, America, Simply

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'
Louis C. K.

God, Become, Happened

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
Jackie Chan

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer

Future, Wise, Remember

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz

Men, Create, Mental

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
Eric Cantona

Memories, Prisoner, Quickly

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Bram Stoker

Experience, Give, Enough

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing

Life, God, Spiritual

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
Annie Lennox

Women, Hard, Tell

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.
Shirley MacLaine

The past cannot be cured.
Elizabeth I

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.
Lindsay Lohan

Mistakes, Young, Learn

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Neale Donald Walsch

Sad, Human, Enough

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Ernst Haas

Time, Long, Reality

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Jack Dempsey

Forget, Worry, Forgetting

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Henri Matisse

Old, Growing, Delight

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
Angus Young

Stage, Bands, Pimple

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