Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.
The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester...
Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It's what made me who I am today.
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology t...
Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow.
Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
I hate the past - especially my own past.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.
I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
Living in the past kills your future.
In the past, I was working out too heavy.
A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.
