Past Quotes

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

~ Nikola Tesla

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

~ Hannah Arendt

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

~ Abraham Lincoln

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

~ Richard Jefferies

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

~ Rainbow Rowell

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

~ Bill Nye

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

~ Stephen Hawking

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

~ Annalee Newitz

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

~ Gina Bellman

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

~ Russell Tovey

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

~ Paul Twitchell

Forget the past.

~ Nelson Mandela

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

~ George Allen

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

~ Carl Sandburg

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

~ Nikolai Gogol

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

~ Jack Dempsey

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

~ Mick Jagger

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

~ Harold Pinter

I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

~ Natalie Massenet

People actually aren't moving on from companies much more quickly than in the past, but there's a perception that they do, so companies are investing less in talent on the assumption that young employees won't stay long.

~ Kathryn Minshew

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

~ Jennette Mccurdy

Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

~ James Comey

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

~ Debbie Ford

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

~ Jochen Zeitz

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

~ T. Boone Pickens

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

~ Fidel Castro

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

~ Mahavira

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

~ André Breton

I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them.

~ Roshon Fegan

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

~ Alice Thomas Ellis

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.

~ Martin Mcguinness

If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.

~ Cass Sunstein

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

~ Scott Fujita

As we celebrate the considerable progress we've made toward full equality in our military, we cannot forget about those who continue to suffer because of the discriminatory policies of our past.

~ Mark Pocan

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

~ Robin Wasserman

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

~ Ally Condie

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

~ Blake Shelton

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

~ George Burns

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

~ Jackson Pollock