David Trimble Quotes

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

The past has nothing more to teach us. Then why not let it be …. We must look ahead …. Unless we learn to forget, we will be turned into a pillar of salt.

We need to move forward and beyond the point where we endlessly pursue the demons bequeathed us by our history.

We need not be prisoners of our history.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

Your past should not be a life sentence.

I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it.

I think we have to be positive and think about what we can do now because the past is the past - we cannot change it.

I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.

We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.

Don't hold on to the past; it won't help in moving forward. Dare to dream big.

Life's easier and nicer when you let go of the past and look to the future.

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

My life is like driving down a road. I occasionally glance in the rearview mirror, but I'm not focused on the past or looking back anymore.

There is something to not always reminding people of a show they've already seen, but instead embracing the one right in front of him. I am Cody, and I can promise you that the future is going to be even better than the past.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

To be honest, the football and the time is going so fast. I don't want to say that I've forgotten about the World Cup, but for me, it belongs to the past. I don't have time to make a step backwards and think about the World Cup.

In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.

I can't dwell on the past. It's over, there's nothing I can do about it.