Explore Quotes on Past

As much as I love elements of Spider-Man's past, I don't really want to go back in and retell the Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin story in animation just so I can do my take on it. I don't want to redo the first 'Spider Slayer' story.

Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

In the past, I've been pretty good at closing out tournaments.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Learning about our past is definitely important, not only for Australians but people around the world. It's something that Australia should never be ashamed of. It's part of our history. It's part of us.

I love coverage. My ideal dress would be a turtleneck that goes all the way up to my chin, and then sleeves that go past my fingers. And then the dress goes all the way to the floor, and you see the very tips of my toes.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

In the past, I put too much pressure on myself. I went out there and I tried so hard to get the ball in the hole, I tried so hard to hit the perfect shots.

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

In the past I feel like when I think about when I've talked with Jack Nicklaus about how he played golf tournaments, he did not play go-for-broke golf, so he was able to wear people out. That type of golf doesn't win golf tournaments these days as much as it used to.

Aldo has had a great run in the past, defended many titles against tough guys.

I live in the present because the past is regret, and the future is anxiety.

There's a great book called 'Britain's Black Past' edited by Gretchen Gerzina. It has a myriad of stories and angles on black British history by different authors. It talks about women, soldiers and slavery.