Quotes on Past

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

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

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4×100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.