4,591 Quotes About Past

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.

By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy.

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

We had a 15-, 20-point lead. We were just whistling down the street. Now we're whistling past the graveyard.

I'm attracted to the past.