Quotes about His Past

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Votes: 4

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. Votes: 4

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. Votes: 4

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! Votes: 4

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past. Votes: 4

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself. Votes: 4

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. Votes: 4

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. Votes: 4

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me. Votes: 4

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. Votes: 4

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past. Votes: 3

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past. Votes: 3

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come. Votes: 3

If only a man could spit his past out so easily. Votes: 3

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. Votes: 3

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past! Votes: 3

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. Votes: 3

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. Votes: 3

Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey. Votes: 3

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest. Votes: 3

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. Votes: 3

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences. Votes: 3

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past Votes: 3

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it. Votes: 3

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key. Votes: 3

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. Votes: 3

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought. Votes: 3

Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. Votes: 3

Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future Votes: 3

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. Votes: 3

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. Votes: 3

He went to hell and back, to shut the door of his past, he would not let that door be opened again by others. Votes: 3

Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind. Votes: 3

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. Votes: 3

He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn. Votes: 3

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere. Votes: 3

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Votes: 3

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish. Votes: 3

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life! Votes: 3

I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship. Votes: 3

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning. Votes: 3

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive! Votes: 3

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics. Votes: 3

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with. Votes: 3

If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great. Votes: 3

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up. Votes: 3

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews. Votes: 3

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged. Votes: 3

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them. Votes: 3

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. Votes: 3

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past. Votes: 3

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. Votes: 3

My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago. Votes: 3

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. Votes: 3

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time. Votes: 3

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. Votes: 3

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun. Votes: 3

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence. Votes: 3

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property. Votes: 3

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words. Votes: 3

This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally. Votes: 3

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. Votes: 3

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated. Votes: 3

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes. Votes: 3

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. Votes: 3

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all. Votes: 3

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here. Votes: 3

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. Votes: 3

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Votes: 3

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. Votes: 3

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures. Votes: 3

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. Votes: 3

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute. Votes: 3

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes. Votes: 3

The Great Work of Magic is the collapsing of the future into the immediate present; the magician seizes reality and lives now, free from the bonds of his past, and knowing that the future is the Manifestation of his Will. Votes: 3

The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated the surrounding atmosphere with the melody of sounds that faded like the ashes of dead years. Votes: 3

I flew this past weekend. I went through airport security and said to the guy, 'Is everything okay?' He said, 'You might want to have that mole on your ass checked out.' That seems a little personal to me. Votes: 3

i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream. Votes: 3

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04. Votes: 3

That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is? Votes: 3

New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962. Votes: 3

I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad. Votes: 3

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance. Votes: 3

A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. Votes: 3

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job. Votes: 3

I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like. Votes: 3

I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men' comic books. I read a couple 'Scott Pilgrim' this past year, and those are really good, but I don't read in general, unfortunately. Votes: 3

The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see. Votes: 3

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'. Votes: 3

Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems. Votes: 3

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future. Votes: 3

How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it. Votes: 3

Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that. Votes: 3

I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect. Votes: 3

We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present. Votes: 3

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime. Votes: 2

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Votes: 2

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. Votes: 2

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Votes: 2

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. Votes: 2

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times. Votes: 2

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. Votes: 2

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. Votes: 2

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service. Votes: 2

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home. Votes: 2

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past. Votes: 0

Man just went past with a cat on his head, Votes: 0

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings. Votes: 0

If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart. Votes: 0

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul. Votes: 0

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless. Votes: 0

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop. Votes: 0

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark. Votes: 0

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth. Votes: 0

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him. Votes: 0

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future. Votes: 0

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. Votes: 0

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach. Votes: 0

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. Votes: 0

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma. Votes: 0

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. Votes: 0

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. Votes: 0

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. Votes: 0

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. Votes: 0

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ! Votes: 0

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head. Votes: 0

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. Votes: 0

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. Votes: 0

An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future. Votes: 0

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. Votes: 0

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war? Votes: 0

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. Votes: 0

Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress. Votes: 0

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future. Votes: 0

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. Votes: 0

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! Votes: 0

Osho had been speaking to a small group of people every night at his house for the past few months. Votes: 0

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. Votes: 0

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. Votes: 0

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. Votes: 0

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Votes: 0

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. Votes: 0

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven. Votes: 0

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand. Votes: 0

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. Votes: 0

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth. Votes: 0

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? Votes: 0

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure. Votes: 0

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. Votes: 0

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. Votes: 0

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. Votes: 0

And then his lips were on mine and we were in it, pulling away from the past and rushing fast into the future. Votes: 0

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! Votes: 0

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! Votes: 0

A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past. Votes: 0

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. Votes: 0

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. Votes: 0

The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet. Votes: 0

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. Votes: 0

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. Votes: 0

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. Votes: 0

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. Votes: 0

Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet. Votes: 0

...burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it. Votes: 0

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. Votes: 0

He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen]. Votes: 0

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. Votes: 0

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was Votes: 0

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own. Votes: 0

Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both. Votes: 0

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth. Votes: 0

When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her. Votes: 0

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service. Votes: 0

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. Votes: 0

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. Votes: 0

Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter. Votes: 0

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind. Votes: 0

I can forgive a man's past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it's his religion. Votes: 0

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals. Votes: 0

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history. Votes: 0

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. Votes: 0

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years. Votes: 0

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Votes: 0

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle. Votes: 0

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. Votes: 0

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second. Votes: 0

The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence. Votes: 0

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. Votes: 0

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life. Votes: 0

I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box... Votes: 0

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden. Votes: 0

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him. Votes: 0

Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day. Votes: 0

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. Votes: 0

It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying. Votes: 0

Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him. Votes: 0

Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief. Votes: 0

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny. Votes: 0

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert. Votes: 0

That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all. Votes: 0