The 100 Best Phrases of the Past

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Basil Manning
The 100 Best Phrases of the Past

I leave you the best phrases from the past from great authors such as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Santayana, Eckhart Tolle, Confucius, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Napoleon Bonaparte and many more.

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-The past is a ghost, the future a dream and the only thing we have is now.-Bill Cosby.

-Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.-George Santayana.

-We are a product of our past, but we do not have to be its prisoner.-Rick Warren.

-The past is never dead. It is not even past.-William Faulkner.

-There is a delicate balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.-Eckhart Tolle.

-Studying the past can define the future.-Confucius.

-Use the past to have a better future.-Darren Witt.

-In the past things seem better than they really were.-Denn Carr.

-Do not let the past steal your present.-Taylor Caldwell.

-The past really happened, but history is only what someone wrote.-A. Whitney brown.

-You can lose your way in the shadows of the past.-Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

-The moments of the past do not remain still, they transform into what we want.-Marcel Trasm.

-A people without the knowledge of its past history, its origin and culture is like a tree without roots.-Marcus Garvey.

-Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived looking forward.-Soren Kierkegaard.

-The past beats inside me like a second heart.-John Banville.

-Our distrust of the future makes it difficult to give up the past.-Chuck Palahniuk.

-Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future, but today is a gift. That is why it is called present.-Bil Keane.

-When we are tired, we are attacked by the ideas we conquered long ago.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-The past is never where you think you left it.-Katherine Anne Porter.

-I like dreams of a future better than the history of the past.-Thomas Jefferson.

-Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.-Corrie Ten Boom.

-Life is divided into three periods; what it was, what it is and what it will be. Let us learn from the past to take advantage of today, and from the present to live better in the future.-William Wordsworth.

-Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.-Cormac McCarthy.

-Family is a link to our past and a bridge to our future.-Alex Haley.

-The past cannot hurt you, unless you let it.-Alan Moore.

-The history of the past is but one long struggle for equality.-Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

-Sooner or later we all have to put aside our past.-Dan Brown.

-My past is everything that could not be.- Fernando Pessoa.

-The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.-Oscar Wilde.

-Those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.-Edmund Burke.

-What is past is prologue.-William Shakespeare.

-History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.-Konrad Adenauer.

-The past is a foreign country, they do things differently.-LP Hartley.

-People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.-James A. Baldwin.

-In this bright future you cannot forget the past.-Bob Marley.

-The past is almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.-Jessamyn West.

-No man is rich enough to buy back his past.-Oscar Wilde.

-Without libraries, what do we have? We have no past or future.-Ray Bradbury.

-You can know the past by your actions in the present.-Elk Nerr.

-You cannot rewrite the past.-Jay Asher.

-The difficulties that I have encountered in the past will help me to be successful in the future.-Philip Emeagwali.

-With each passing moment I am becoming part of the past. There is no future, only the past constantly accumulating.-Haruki Murakami.

-The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present a sinister ticking sound, and the future is something no one knows.-James Thurber.

-What is history but a consensual fable? -Napoleon Bonaparte.

-One cannot and should not try to erase the past simply because it does not fit the present.-Golda Meir.

-History is not a burden for the memory, but an illumination of the soul.-Lord Acton.

-Our past can explain why we are suffering but it should not be used as an excuse to remain in captivity.-Joyce Meyer.

-Save the worst of the past to live better the present.-Diane Lier.

-History is a gallery of images in which there are few originals and many copies.-Alexis de Tocqueville.

-It is more fun to think about the future than to live in the past.-Sara Shepard.

-Learn from the past and look to the future, but live in the present.-Petra Nemcova.

-We would like to live as we once did, but history will not allow it.-John F. Kennedy.

-The only new thing in the world is the history that you do not know.-Harry Truman.

-Do not live in the past. Has no sense. You can not change anything.-Bob Newhart.

-Think of your ancestors. Think of your posterity.-John Adams.

-There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over, now.-Eugene O'Neill.

-Looking back to antiquity is one thing, going back to it is another.-Charles Caleb Colton.

-Sometimes I think that I live more closely with the past than with the present.-Patricia Briggs.

-The free world does not have to prove that it is worthy of its own past.-Dwight D. Eisenhower.

-The past is not dead, it is alive in us, and it will be alive in the future that we are helping to make.-William Morris.

-We just have to see what we can do with the past to make it useful for the present and the future.-Frederick Douglass.

-The next day is not as good as the day before.-Publilio Sirio.

-There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to, our wounded memories, and the mistakes of the past.-Sean Brady.

-The past always looks better than it was, because it is not here.-Finley Peter Dunne.

-Never doubt that history can be changed.-Marge Piercy.

-We have seen better days.-William Shakespeare.

-God cannot alter the past, although historians can.-Samuel Butler.

-Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.-Robert H. Schuller.

-Why not focus on where you are going and less where you come from? -Amy Harmon.

-While I do not take inspiration from the past, I live for the future.-Ronald Reagan.

-One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.-Oscar Wilde.

-Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present into the future.-Denis Waitley.

-If you want to fly in the sky, you need to get off Earth. If you want to move forward, you have to let go of the past.-Amit Ray.

-People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is just a stubbornly persistent illusion.-Albert Einstein.

-The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.-Simone Weil.

-What was there yesterday were only memories; what there will be tomorrow are dreams and what there is today is love.-Santosh Kalwar.

-Look back, and smile at the dangers of the past.-Walter Scott.

-True freedom is creative, proactive, and it will take me to new territories. I am not free if my freedom is based on the reaction to my past.-Kenny Loggins.

-If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in the past, it can hinder your ability to live in the present.-Les Brown.

-The past does not predict the future, you can learn from your mistakes.-Daniel Wallace.

-All that is noble in the past history of the world, and especially the minds of the great and the good, is never lost.-James Martineau.

-The past itself is much less real than the present itself.-Ariadne Lilll.

-In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were there just for the beer, wealth, prestige, and greatness that went with power.-AJP Taylor.

-Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.- James Burke.

-I like to use hard times in the past to motivate myself today.-Dwayne Johnson.

-The past cannot be cured.- Isabel I.

-We must respect the past, and distrust the present, if we wish to foresee the security of the future.-Joseph Joubert.

-The past will always be tense, the future will be perfect.-Zadie Smith.

-The present modifies the past. Looking to the past you will not find what you left behind.-Kiran Desai.

-Sadly, the clock is ticking and the hours are ticking. The past grows, the future shrinks. The possibilities decrease and the regrets pile up.-Haruki Murakami.

-Your past will always be your past. Even if you forget it, he remembers you.-Sarah Dessen.

-The past and the future are real illusions that exist in the present. It is what there is and what there will always be.-Alan W. Watts.

-Everything is illuminated with the light of the past. He is always by our side and within us, looking out.-Jonathan Safran Foer.

-A medicated cat has no time for doubts. Focus your energy on today and stop worrying about the past.-Erin Hunter.

-Just as snakes leave their skin behind, we must leave our past over and over again.-Buddha.

-You cannot take anything new if your hands are still in yesterday's suitcase.-Louise Smith.

-The past can teach and nurture us but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change and we must move forward or our soul will die.-Susanna Kearsley.

-As far as the past is concerned, everyone writes fiction.-Stephen King.

-I can't understand why the past has to be important.-Cassandra Clare.

-This is the past: it moves, it comes together. If you're not careful, he can bury you.-Lauren Oliver.

-You cannot harden your heart for the future because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty against others.-Marie Lu.

-Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now? - Brian Tracy.

-Whoever said that the past is not dead got it wrong. It is the future that is already dead, it has already been exhausted.-Gayle Forman.

-Every time I think about the past it brings back many memories.-Steven Wright.

-When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.-Martin Amis.

-Sometimes letting go is simply changing labels at an event. See the same event but with a fresh mind.-Steve Maraboli.

-Gratitude looks to the past and love looks to the present; fear, greed, lust and ambition look forward.-C.S. Lewis.

-You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offers you the opportunity to do the right thing.-Ann Brashares.

-A generation that ignores history has no past or future.-Robert A. Heinlein.

-Change is the law of life. And those who only see the past or the present will miss the future.-John F. Kennedy.

-It is extremely difficult to see people from your past when your present is so catastrophically damaged.-Jonathan Tropper.

-To hell with the past. This was the present.-Maggie Stiefvater.

-Sometimes, in order to be happy in the present moment, we must be able to give up all hope and thus have a better past.-Robert Holden.

-We can draw lessons from our past, but we cannot live in it.-Lyndon B. Johnson.

-It is important for people to know that no matter what is in their past, they can overcome the dark side and live in a brighter world.-Dave Pelzer.

-In the end, your past is not my past, your truth is not my truth and your solution is not my solution.-Zadie Smith.

-The past must be respected and recognized, but not worshiped. It is in the future where we will find our greatness.-Pierre Trudeau.

-If it's over, don't let the past hurt the rest of your life.-Nicholas Sparks.

-Even the good things from our past, still belong to our past.-Cora Carmack.

-While our past cannot be changed, our perceptions of it are moldable.-Nicholas Sparks.    

-People often think that what they believed in the past was something primitive and not intelligent at all, yet we continue to find truths in our past.-Jennifer Armentrout.

-We must learn to maintain knowledge of the past while pursuing the present.-Lauren Kate.

-The past has no power over the present moment.-Eckhart Tolle

-The past was nothing more than the graveyard of our illusions: one simply tapped one's toes on the tombstones.-Émile Zola.

-You cannot do anything about the past, it is already done and cannot be amended. But the future is different if you think about what you want, reach for it and take it.-Lesley Pearse.

-My past tries to catch up with me and I must continue to run from it. It's the only way I can live.-Nicole Sobon.

-In a relationship, the more past you share, the more present you must be.-Eckhart Tolle.

-Let the past be happy with itself, since man needs oblivion and memory.-James Stephens.

-The past attracts me and the present terrifies me because the future is dead.-Guy de Maupassant.

-Learn from the past but do not live in it.-Steve Maraboli.  

-The past is important for all the information and wisdom it offers us. But you can still get lost in it.-Lauren Kate.

-Our past may shape us, but it does not define what we will become.-Ellen Hopkins.

-Everyone has a past, but that's it. It is in the past. You can learn from him, but you cannot change him.-Nicholas Sparks.


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