Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew.
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Or do I need to walk past again?
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.
Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.
The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
