Past Quotes

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.

I don’t believe in yesterday, by the way.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let’s try to live the best we can now.

I respect all of the fighters within the sport of boxing, legends of the past, stars of the present, and prospects of the future.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

I never regret my past. Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

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