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| Det förflutna hände faktiskt, men historien är bara vad någon skrev ned. | A. Whitney Brown (1952-) |
| Jag ser tillbaka på mitt liv som en bra dags arbete; det är gjort och jag är nöjd med det. | Anna Mary Robertson Moses |
| If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? | Arthur Hoppe |
| When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people | Ernest Renan (1823-1892) |
| By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry | Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) |
| You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. | Jan Glidewell |
| The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. | Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) |
| It is one thing putting away the past, and quite another to tape its mouth shut | Liam Lacey |
| The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. | Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) |
| We are tomorrow's past. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. | Michael Cibenko |
| The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. | P. L. Berger |
| The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. | Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996) |
| He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. | Torvald Gahlin (1910-2006) |
| Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. | Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
| The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. | Wendell Berry |
| We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me | John Wesley (1703-1791) |
| Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. | Charles R. Swindoll (1934-) |
| You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. | Jan Glidewell |
| 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 (1940-1940) |
| The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. | A. Whitney Brown (1952-) |
| The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. | Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) |
| I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| The beauty of the past belongs to the past. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| You have to know the past to understand the present. | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath. | Eve Glicksman |
| One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. | Michael Cibenko |
| The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. | P. L. Berger |
| We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future | Tony Campolo |
| Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now. | Don Rickles (1926-) |
| When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, “Do you remember that night we...?” But you don’t have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks. | Federico Fellini (1920-1993) |
| He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| No man is rich enough to buy back his past. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| What is past is prologue. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |