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Past

«Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.»
«Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.»
«One faces the future with one's past.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck | About: Future, Past
«Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.»
Author: Robert Brault | About: Life, Past
«Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.»
«I try to be the same person I was yesterday.»
Author: Colin Powell | About: Past, Trying
«Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.»
Author: Katherine Mansfield (Writer) | About: Past, Writing | Keywords: twaddle
«No man is rich enough to buy back his past.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Past | Keywords: buy, No Man, rich
«One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Judgement, Past | Keywords: judged
«O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.»

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