Past Quotes - Page 12

• You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other.

  Drake

  Relationship, Humble, Perfect

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• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Novelists, Stories, Historian

  Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt (1958). “The Goncourt journals, 1851-1870”

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• Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ifs

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• If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Feet, History, Ifs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.871, Delphi Classics

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• The past is where its supposed to be.

  Jason Newsted

  Supposed To Be

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• I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Peace, Want, Blame

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• I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

  Diane Keaton

  Keys, Documentation, My Past

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• I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

  Louise Hay

  Ease, Process, Release

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• The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.

  Debbie Ford

  Warrior, Inner Strength, Needs

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• I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

  Michael Chang

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

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• Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God

  Billy Graham

  Mistake, Seeking God, Past Mistakes

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• Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young.

  Amy Wright

  Color, Years, Yellow

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• The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  New Day, Together, Matter

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• Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can’t let go of the past.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Letting Go, Memories, Cutting

  "Laurie Halse Anderson Thinks Adults Should Be Reading More YA". Interview with Krystie Lee Yandoli, www.buzzfeed.com.

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• I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

  Joe Jonas

  Fashion, Years, I Love Fashion

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• Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Ideas, Nomad, Perceive

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, New Day, Judgment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Transition, Shooting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

  Bertrand Russell

  New York, Chicago, Asia

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.555, Psychology Press

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• In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.

  Bernard Lewis

  War, People, World

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• In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Interesting, Ego

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.84, Ronin Publishing

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• To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Age, Complaining, Common

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4

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• London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.

  Doris Lessing

  Drinking, Coffee, Home

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. November 19, 2013.

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• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Reality

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