You can’t know what it is like for us now–you will always be one step behind.Be thankful for that.You can’t know what it was like for us then–you will always be one step ahead.Be thankful...

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

I still don’t feel ready to compete at a high level. I have undergone exams this past week, and my hip still lacks stability. I will spend the upcoming weeks in the U.S. undergoing treatment.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form…The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we...

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve...

I learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future.

The past is what you take with you.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space… But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

Libertyville has triple-teamed Sarah in the past, but we didn’t do a very good job (on Monday) getting anyone open for Sarah to pass to on the backside. We didn’t do a very good job...

But after that game, I knew it was up to the seniors to make sure no one was looking past New Mexico State – especially with the type of team Miami has been the last...

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Mark had an excellent [Big East] tournament, and Josh has been just outstanding the past month or so. I’m really confident that both these guys can keep playing at the level they’ve been playing at,...

We went to the New York World’s Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General...

Iran have improved rapidly in the past two years. They have very good young players and gave us some trouble,

I don’t connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

I’ve learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

In the past two weeks, he’s improved incredibly.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

It begins when he’s still a man in a suit, doing the kinds of boring things that men in suits do. The things that no one writes about because they know that boys don’t really...

To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I have grown not to care a damn about that ever increasing collection of...

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

In magic – and in life – there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ‘Time’ doesn’t pass. We human beings have...

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you...

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.

You know, they just don’t make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it’s sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the...

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can’t get over their past . . . That’s what ghosts are.

She’s been a solid hitter the past couple of years and does a good job throwing runners out. She’s a tough, steady player and a great kid.

Use the information you’ve been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you’ve heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life. You are responsible for...

Don’t let the lies of yesterday hamper the promises of tomorrow

(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

You can’t change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

Forgiveness is the one gift you don’t give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free.

I mean, I don’t know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With the Wind I’ve had these fantasies about those generals, those gorgeous young Southern...

Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it through the door. If the past is a solid oak buffet whose legs...

Le présent serait plein de tous les avenirs, si le passé n’y projetait déjà une histoire.

it is as it is”. And yet, I am saying this to you. Because it is, as it is. Reality is rather painful than acceptable. And yet we have to live through it, try to...

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn’t our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn’t there a story there, one unknown, full of...

It has been said, people drawn to law enforcement have a sixth sense, an ability to see what others do not. He prayed he was wrong. His sixth sense said there was much more than...

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

Looking backwardsHas never been my endeavorLost passions… bruised emotionsNever distressed me.

I definitely made it a point this week to not let up because in the past sometimes when I have won, the next week I have not quite played as well. I was maybe a...

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c’est l’équilibre – Du passé et du futur)