Past quotes

“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.” James Madison

“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” Joel Osteen

“I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.” Joel Osteen

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.” Blaise Pascal

“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.” Blaise Pascal

“Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.” Mitt Romney

“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.” Ronald Reagan

“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.” Ayn Rand

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” Theodore Roosevelt

“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” Tony Robbins

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.” Tony Robbins

“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.” Henry Rollins

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” Wayne Dyer

“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” Frederick Douglass

“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” Frederick Douglass

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” Rene Descartes

“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.” Charles Darwin

“I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.” Ellen DeGeneres

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.” Bill Cosby

“As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'” Bill Cosby

“I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.” David Bowie

“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.” Charles Stanley

“I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.” Charles Stanley

“I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.” Paris Hilton

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.” Donald Trump

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” Virginia Woolf