The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.Sparky Anderson
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.David Antin
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.James M. Barrie
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.Peter Berger
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.Henri Bergson
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.Wendell Berry
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.Robert Bulwer-Lytton
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.Ken Burns
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.Fidel Castro
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.John Jay Chapman
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.Robbie Coltrane
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Cyril Connolly
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.Bill Cosby
What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.Ron Davies
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.Frederick Douglass
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.Helen Dunmore
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.George Eliot
The past is never dead. It's not even past.William Faulkner
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.Edna Ferber
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.Marilyn Ferguson
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.John Hope Franklin
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.Doris Kearns Goodwin
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.King Hussein
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.Helen Hunt Jackson
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.Mick Jagger
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.Karl Lagerfeld
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.Annie Lennox
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.Jonathan Lethem
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.Gavin MacLeod
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.Mary McAleese
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.Alice Miller
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.Jonathan Miller
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.William Morris
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.Steve Nash
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.Michael Ondaatje
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.Blaise Pascal
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.Harold Pinter
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.Ron Reagan
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.Alain Resnais
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.Adrienne Rich
When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.Christopher Ricks
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.Boyle Roche
Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.Richard Roeper
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.Charles Rosen
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.Carl Sandburg
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.Clifford D. Simak
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I'm really obsessed with the past.Fisher Stevens
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.Gustav Stresemann
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.James Thurber
One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.Robert Towne
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.Barbara Tuchman
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dale Turner
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'Neale Donald Walsch
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.Shane Warne
Past is past.Pete Waterman
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.Mary Webb
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.Simone Weil
I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.Len Wein
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.Richard von Weizsaecker
The past is but the past of a beginning.H. G. Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.H. G. Wells
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.Jessamyn West
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.Marianne Williamson
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.Wendell Willkie
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.Virginia Woolf
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.Israel Zangwill
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