Quotes
Quotes about Past
Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
