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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Cyndara is extremely cunning. I wouldn't put anything past her or Lady Aron.
— Diana S. Zimmerman
The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first.
— Anjali Chugh
The future is born, put the past in a casket
— Lil' Wayne
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
— Sushmita Banerjee
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
— Claudia Rankine
We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.
— Shirley Maclaine
I don't want to live on past records.
— Barry Gibb
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
— Robert Carlyle
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
— Berenice Abbott
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.
— Jeremy Hardy
Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.
— Susan Meissner
All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.
— Ted Kooser
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past
— Christopher Paolini
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
If the past was what we were meant to see ... Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.
— R.v.m.
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
— Friedrich Schiller
WHO HAD TO GET PAST DRAGONS AND SPHINXES AND EVERY OTHER FOUL THING LAST YEAR? WHO SAW HIM COME BACK? WHO HAD TO ESCAPE FROM HIM? ME!
— J.K. Rowling
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
— Donald J. Trump
Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.
— Christopher Paolini
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
All remembrance of things past is fiction.
— Ernest Hemingway,
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
— Dan Harris
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
— Price Pritchett
You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.
— Mikaela Shiffrin
We must forget our past because our past was a life according to the thoughts of people and not God
— Sunday Adelaja
We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe
— John Updike
Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
— Pearl Bailey
Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output
— Richard Posner
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
— Robert Penn Warren
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
— Mick Jagger
A time past is an essence gone
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment.
— Jillian Lauren
On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange
— Gertrude Chandler Warner
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
— Casey Stengel
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
— Swami Vivekananda
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
— Ben Whishaw
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.
— Jennifer Capriati
I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymore; I'm way past those days.
— Charlie Weber
Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
— Adrian Rogers
Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
— Nicholas Ostler
Such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension
— Charlotte Bronte
Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.
— Carine Roitfeld
Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it.
— Scott James Magner
What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.
— Lisa Mantchev
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
— J.G. Ballard
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
— Sathya Sai Baba
We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.
— Katharine Hayhoe
Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook.
— Steve Inskeep
The past can not be cured.
— Elizabeth I
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
— Mickey Spillane
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
— Sarah Addison Allen
The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.
— Rajneesh
As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.
— Bill Johnson
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
— Jack Kornfield
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
— Wendell Berry
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
— Max Lerner
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
— Olivia D'Abo
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
— Edward W. Said
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
— Michael Bassey
Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.
— Debasish Mridha
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
— Isaac Watts
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
— Ellen Goodman
The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.
— Cassandra Clare
We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
— Honore De Balzac
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
— Eduardo Galeano
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
— John Vanbrugh
