Past Quotes - Page 140

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a fast learner." He glanced at her and saw no prospect of escape. "Well,at least I won't be the only one," he said. "Halt will be terrible too." But nobody in the assembly knew tat for the past ten days, Halt had been taking dance lessons from Lady Sandra.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

Treat the past as a school.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.

From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.