My Past Quotes - Page 4

• I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Growing Up, Mistake, Past

  "Lindsay Lohan On Her Trial, Her Career, And The Reasons She Lost Control". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 31, 2010.

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• I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

  Lorna Luft

  Pain, Past, Shadow

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Past, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.480, Vintage

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• I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

  Brandon Mull

  Hate, Past, Grandpa

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Daughter, Pain

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin

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• But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Healing, Past

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• This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Ocean, Cutting

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• I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

  Julia Quinn

  I Love You, Children, Past

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• It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole of my life–and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!

  Donna Tartt

  Morning, Past, Discovery

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.88, Vintage

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• Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Past, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)

  Brandon Mull

  Hate, Son, Past

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• Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

  Colum McCann

  Past, Thinking, Skins

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• In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Faces, Scar

  "White Oleander". Book by Janet Fitch, 1999.

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• "I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

  Lisa Kleypas

  Past, Men, Apologizing

  "Devil in Winter". Book by Lisa Kleypas, 2006.

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• Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to.

  Jennifer Estep

  Strong, Disappointment, Past

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• Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Kids, Son, Past

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

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• God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

  Simone Elkeles

  Past, Care, My Future

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• You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

  David Klass

  Past, May, My Future

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lying, Sleep, Past

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• I jumped in the river, what did I see?
  Black-eyed angels swam with me
  A moon full of stars and astral cars
  And all the figures I used to see
  All my lovers were there with me
  All my past and futures
  And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
  There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Angel, Past

  "Song: 'Pyramid Song'". 2001.

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• I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

  Ted Danson

  Past, Want, Keep Going

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

  Georg Solti

  Past, Get Away, Wanted

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Work, Past, Track

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• I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

  Ma Rainey

  Music, Past, My Future

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