T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.”
“The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.”
“The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.”
Source: Delhi is Not Far: The Best of Ruskin Bond
“The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.”
“The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.”
“The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.”
“The past is an annoying critic whose loud tirade of accusatory declamations detracts me from experiencing happiness. Loitering within the craggy shadows of my lithograph identification apparatus is the splayed viscera from the blood-soaked entrails of an egotistical self’s riddled history. The unbidden past tugs at my sleeves similar to a persistent tramp demanding an attentive accounting. A disgraced personal self refuses to release its despotic hold upon my guilt-ridden psyche without exacting a sacrificial tithing. Strewn wreckage from my history of scandalous debacles cast a pall of shame over the present. The shambles of my disreputable past stifles my present desire to celebrate in the rudimentary grandeur of living robustly. With the past snarling its reproach, my mind is preoccupied with ugly thoughts, and every day reduced to a tiresome and worrisome filled existence that halts my progress towards achieving an envisaged life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.”
“The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.”
“The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.”
“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.”
“The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.”
“The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?”
“The past is another planet.”
“The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”
“The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.”
“The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.”
“The past is behind you and there is nothing you can do to change it. However, you are in total control of your future.”
“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
“The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“The past is but the past of a beginning.”
“The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?”
Source: The Bet
“The past is certain, the future obscure.”
“The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.”
“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
“The past is dead except for the life you give it”
“The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were
alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.”
Source: The Shape of Irish History
“The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.”
Source: Dance With the Devil
“The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.”
Source: Fiction Distorting Fact
“The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.”
“The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.”
“The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”
Source: Maurice
“The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?”
Source: Modes and Morals
“The past is dust. It disappears behind us. There is no way back.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story
“The past is embedded in who we are, whether we choose to change or keep our course. Without our history, we are unmarked sheets of paper.”
Source: Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
“The past is entirely changeless. You cannot fix what has happened or alter situations to the outcome of your liking, because that is not life. Life is not always fair, nor courteous. It never has been. So no, you cannot change your past, but you can change yours, and someone else’s, future. Time will mend everything, Brantley Thornton. You just have to consciously choose, every day, even through the hardships and obstructions, to be patient.”
Source: Counting Stars
“The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.”
“The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.”
Source: The Voice of Jerusalem
“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”
Source: Young Wives' Tales
“The past is full of if-onlys and they're all bullshit.”
Source: The Anomaly
“The past is gained, secure, and on record.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“The past is getting clearer and clearer”
“The past is gold. The present is diamonds. The future is rubies. Eternity is a priceless treasure.”
“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present.”
“The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.”
“The past is gone, but today is here, and the future is yet to come, so it doesn't deserve our fear...”
Source: Blurred Starlight: Volume 3
“The past is gone, it doesn't exist any more.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“The past is gone, Leo, all you have is now.”
Source: The Sun Rises in Eastmoor