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Philosophical literature6 quotes
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana · 1905For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — AgathonThis only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone. — Agathon · 350 BCAncient times were the youth of the world. — Francis Bacon · 1605What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already taken its course, one does not criticize; what already belongs to the past, one does not censure. — Confucius · 221 BCThere were poets before Homer. — Cicero · 46 BCDrama5 quotes
My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. — Forrest Gump · 1994Yeah now, well, the thing about the old days... They the old days. — Slim Charles · 2006The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. — D'Angelo Barksdale · 2006The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us! — Jimmy Gator · 1999I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. — Old Paul Edgecomb · 1999Drama (film)3 quotes
My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. — Forrest Gump · 1994The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us! — Jimmy Gator · 1999I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. — Old Paul Edgecomb · 1999Biography2 quotes
The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. — Henry Kissinger · 1972That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present. — Sydney Smith · 1845Comedy2 quotes
Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. — Carrie · 2002Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past! — Walter Sobchak · 1998Crime2 quotes
Yeah now, well, the thing about the old days... They the old days. — Slim Charles · 2006The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. — D'Angelo Barksdale · 2006Crime (TV)2 quotes
Yeah now, well, the thing about the old days... They the old days. — Slim Charles · 2006The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. — D'Angelo Barksdale · 2006Drama (TV)2 quotes
Yeah now, well, the thing about the old days... They the old days. — Slim Charles · 2006The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. — D'Angelo Barksdale · 2006Historical literature2 quotes
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1848If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good. — Venerable Bede · 731Tragedy (play)2 quotes
What's done cannot be undone. — William Shakespeare · 1616Things without all remedy
Should be without regard. What’s done is done. — William Shakespeare · 1616Comedy (TV)1 quote
Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. — Carrie · 2002Comedy (film)1 quote
Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past! — Walter Sobchak · 1998Comedy (play)1 quote
What's past is prologue. — William Shakespeare · 1616Coming of age story1 quote
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Crime comedy1 quote
Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past! — Walter Sobchak · 1998Crime comedy (film)1 quote
Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past! — Walter Sobchak · 1998Dystopian fiction1 quote
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Political literature1 quote
At every step the natural light which illuminates their path grows dimmer and less secure; and that, in spite of all their efforts, they have as yet only discovered a small number of conflicting notions, on which the mind of man has been tossed about for thousands of years, without either laying a firmer grasp on truth, or finding novelty even in its errors. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1840Political speech1 quote
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1963Psychological drama1 quote
The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us! — Jimmy Gator · 1999Psychological drama (film)1 quote
The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us! — Jimmy Gator · 1999Romantic comedy1 quote
Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. — Carrie · 2002Romantic comedy (TV)1 quote
Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. — Carrie · 2002