Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Corazon Aquino

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Gianni Versace

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Giacomo Casanova

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
Serena Williams

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
Jackson Pollock

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Cary Grant

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King

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

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
Steve Spurrier

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
Hideki Tojo