“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.”

“When years have past
Over the fallen arch, the ruin'd hall,
It seems but course of time, the one great doom,
Whose influence is alike upon us all;”

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

“Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.”

“Never has the future become so rapidly the past.”

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

“A movie about the past is not the same as the past.”

“The thing you have to understand about fighter pilots is they never quite grow past the stage of little boys buzzing past girls on their bicycles.”

“Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.”