Quotes with past

  • Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
  • Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
  • Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
  • The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future
  • There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
  • To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
  • The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
  • Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
  • All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
  • Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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  • Billie Burke A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • John Ruskin Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Anthony Robbins Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Evan Esar The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
    Evan Esar
    American humorist (1899 - 1995)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Charles Swindoll Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Paul Boese Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
    Paul Boese
    American filmmaker
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Frederick Douglass We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Winston Churchill For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Kissinger For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • George Eliot I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Shakespeare I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Look back, and smile on perils past.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Hepworth My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Confucius Study the past if you would divine the future.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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