It would be very unwise to beg anyone who abandoned you in the past to come into your beautiful present.
My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.
Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past.
There's an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. But those of us who refuse to forget the past are condemned to relive it.
For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.
I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
Learning from the past can help you move forward. Lingering in the past will only hold you back.
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
