Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
A cynic is a person who sees things as it is; he has no concept of future or past.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
