4,591 Quotes About Past

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

The God content of the past no longer sustains the contemporary spirit. We sense that our only hope is to journey past those definitions of a God who is external, supernatural, and invasive, which previously defined our belief. We must discover whether or not the death of the God we worshiped yesterday is the same thing as the death of God.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.

We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.