Quotes of: Forget-the-past Keyword

I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.

Love Exactly

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

A Lion Among Men

A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

Lady Oracle

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

The Law of Similars

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

One bad habit people do way past the age they should be doing it is living. The youth of today, they’re so old.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Spiral Road

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Let your strength from the past provide proof of your abilities to . . . conquer the difficulties of the present.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

The Sweet Far Thing

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.

The Storyteller

In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

So Long, See You Tomorrow

but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

The Space Between Us

It’s not what you have done in your past, but what you are doing for your future that counts!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing.

Travels in Hyperreality

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

The Old Man and the Sea