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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  George Santayana

  Topics in History, Life

  Tags in Remember, past

• The past cannot be cured.

  Elizabeth I

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Cured

• I wouldn’t put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

  David Edward Jenkins

  Topics in God

  Tags in past

• Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

  David Brock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, past

• Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It’s happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, past

• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  David Boies

  Topics in Love

  Tags in past

• So I’ve learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I’ve done and I turn them down, they’re going to do it anyhow.

  Danny Elfman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Topics in Work

  Tags in past

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back!

  Dan Quayle

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in past

• The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

  David Antin

  Topics in Society

  Tags in past

• I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear – I’m not mad at anybody – not anymore.

  Dave Chappelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Talk

• I don’t really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

  Danica Patrick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• Everyone has a past.

  Darrell Issa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• When you’ve moved past a point where you’re just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you’ve seen, what you choose to embrace.

  Danny Glover

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Ever, Before

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  Barney Oliver

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Earth

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  Barbara W. Tuchman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Friend

• In the past, I’d sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I’d know what sort of way a melody was going to go ’cause of the way he’d approach it.

  Tony Iommi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

  George Savile

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Remember, past