Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.
I don't think anyone's past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.
Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every human being, has the same way of thinking.
One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.
The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
Time is spent never bought. Minutes count when seconds blur. Memories are past that’s caught. Imaginings are future’s lure.” Cass and Silver Rainbow-
When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.
Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today.
A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past.
If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment.
Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.
Past traumas are like old scars on tissue that never quite healed properly – they occasionally must be cut open, re-examined, and sutured anew.
My ex-girlfriend was exquisite, while my current girlfriend is merely quisite. The ex always makes the past seem more excellent than the present.
I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.
It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.
I yearn to make these scars disappear And to forget about the past. To throw away all of my fears And to be happy at last.
