He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
I don't dwell in the past, I just can't forget what's passed.
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here bel...
Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by their discovery, they put the par...
I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's theory was wrong. The responses were all the same: no. I also examined the outstanding biodiscoveries of the past cen...
Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one hand, simulations of the future may produce out...
What was, was. The past defines itself. Historians refuse to accept that definition & instead superimpose their analysis of the past through the eyes of the present. Thus, history becomes a pale reflection of the present, while the true past is lost ...
He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, “What are you made of?” After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life together, I shouted at the top of my lungs, “HO...
Ebenezer Scrooge: Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold to me? Ghost of Christmas Past: I am. Ebenezer Scrooge: But... you're just a child! Ghost of Christmas Past: I can remember nearly 1900 years. I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.
[Charles reads Logan's mind] Charles Xavier: [horrified] You poor, poor man... Logan: Look past me. Charles Xavier: No... I don't want your suffering, I don't want your future! Logan: Look past my future... Look for YOUR future... That's it...
It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.
Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.
Spreading rumours is our national past time
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.
