Past Quotes - Page 189

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.

Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.

Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

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.

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.

The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past... so you really don't know anything.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

Past all shame, so past all truth.

Things past redress are now with me past care

For you and I are past our dancing days.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.