Call us the future from your past.
~By Fred Schneider ~
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
~By Walker Percy ~
In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.
~By Mark Strong ~
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
~By Barney Oliver ~
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
~By Pat Morita ~
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
~By Glenn Beck ~
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Look back, and smile on perils past.
~By Walter Scott ~
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
~By John Milton ~
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
~By Ron Reagan ~
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
~By John Pople ~
I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
~By Laura Kightlinger ~
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
~By Anne Louise Germaine de Stael ~
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
~By Confucius ~
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
~By Manmohan Singh ~
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
~By Chuck D. ~
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
~By James Hutton ~
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
~By Brad Henry ~
If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.
~By Puff Daddy ~
Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~By Albert Einstein ~
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
~By George Crumb ~
That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.
~By Steve Carlton ~
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
~By Paul Merton ~
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
~By Andre Maurois ~
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
~By Bill McCartney ~
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.
~By Martin van Creveld ~
It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
~By Bela Kun ~
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
~By George Herman ~
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.
~By Maurice Strong ~
That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?
~By Richie Sambora ~
There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
~By Tom Wilson ~
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
~By Franz Boas ~
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."
~By Bill Cosby ~
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.
~By Peter Sotos ~
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
~By Andre Breton ~
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
~By John Acton ~
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.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
~By Penelope Lively ~
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
~By Marie Louise ~
The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
~By Ed Markey ~
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
~By Tom Allen ~
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.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
~By Steven Wright ~
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
~By Bob Ney ~
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
~By Paul Ryan ~
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.
~By Willie Aames ~
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
~By Jean Froissart ~
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
~By Vladimir Horowitz ~
I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~By Patrick Henry ~
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
~By Russ Feingold ~
Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.
~By Simon Cameron ~
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
~By Lewis B. Smedes ~
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
~By Arthur Baer ~
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
~By Hun Sen ~
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
~By Bob Marley ~
I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
~By Billie Burke ~
Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.
~By Craig Bruce ~
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
~By Richard Bach ~
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~By George Santayana ~
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
~By Ron Silver ~
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
~By James Madison ~
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
~By William Godwin ~
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
~By Sophia Loren ~
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
~By Tony Visconti ~
I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.
~By Michael Lewis ~
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
~By Otto Schily ~
I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.
~By King Hussein I ~
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
~By Margaret Bourke-White ~
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.
~By Roone Arledge ~
Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
~By Bill Bruford ~
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