Past Quotes

"The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past" "You can call it nostalgia, I don’t mind. I think I’ll always be chasing memories of some better place, some better time." "When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back" "The past, present and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones." "You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions" "We don't lose the past; it lives in us" "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." "You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret …is to press play." "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free" "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." "There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past" "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were" "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past." "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it"