#past

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#benefit #consequence #deep #differently #done

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#back #constant #hovers #into #past

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#favorite #historical #history #i #i love

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person. ↗

— Eminem

#any #anything #because #being #between

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#past #present #time #life

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #constantly #forget #get #i

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#committee #fact #in the past #into #million

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#between #david #fight #future #media

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#except #future #i #i am #in the past

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#future #illuminates #longer #past #spirit