Living In The Past Quotes - Page 3

• I do know that living in the past only messes up your present

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Past, Mess, Knows

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• Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Frustration, Past, Optimism

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• He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Book, Past

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no.

  Zendaya

  Past, America, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Last Christmas someone stole my present. I've spent this year living in the past.

  Terry Alderton

  Funny Christmas, Past, Years

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• We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

  John Banville

  Past, Thinking, Live In The Present

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• Without anyone's help, Darth Maul will only commit himself to his mistakes of the past. Every time we find this character, he is living in the past and in some cases he is living with the dead. This character is desperate and he needs Obi-Wan's help to move on.

  Samuel Witwer

  Mistake, Moving, Character

  "Star Wars Rebels: Sam Witwer on Maul's Fateful Encounter With Obi-Wan". Interview with Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. March 22, 2017.

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• I was like, "Oh yeah, that's kind of like me. I'm always living in the past." When I was really young, I thought I was from the 18th century and I was trapped in this life, and I was so miserable and figuring how I could get back. Maybe I was just picking up on ideas of past lives, but I really did believe that I was from another era.

  Diane Birch

  Believe, Past, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Artist, Past, Our World

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I talked about living in the past. There's a whole motif in the book of then and now. And I lived there.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Past, Lakes

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

  Neil Young

  Past, People, Generations

  Source: www.theabsolutesound.com

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• It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

  Jay Samit

  Past, Vision, Up To You

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

  Stephen King

  Past, People, Knows

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

  Dan Auerbach

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

  Phil Anselmo

  Past, Healthy, Type

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

  Joan Jett

  Past, Reality, Giving

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• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  Jack White

  Hate, Past, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?

  Stephen L. Carter

  Friday, Falling In Love, Monday

  "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, 2002.

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• If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Past, Two

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

  Richard Roeper

  Smart, Past, Albums

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