Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn’t work.

I’m nearly 50. I’m past being photographed falling out of bars.

We are at levels that in the past several years had caused gasoline prices to approach the $1.70-type national average record levels.

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.

…Then a man turnedAnd said to me: “Although I love the past, the dark of it,The weight of it teaching us nothing, the loss of it, the allOf it asking for nothing, I will love...

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of...

We did it. Now it’s your turn, … We promised a clear cut-off with the past. We are on that way.

There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can...

The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great!

As seductive as it might have been to erase the grief and pain of the last ten years, it was also a lie. Young Alice was a fool. A sweet, innocent fool. Young Alice hadn’t...

It’s an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That’s it. That’s pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and...

Dwelling on your past won’t get you anywhere you haven’t already been.

Life was simpler when we thought no one cares about what we think.

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.

We wish the past two years could have been smoother.

I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past.

Od onog ondašnjeg čovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve...

What happens now will not matter in the future.

What if I can’t turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can...

Why ruin the present by talking about the past?

I exist only in the past.

Don’t torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.

Kerry is an adult – he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand’ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be...

Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn’t want to be –...

If your password encrypts your history then its a PASTWORD

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.

You have no future when the past rules you.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

Because that is what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn’t just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting...

You can’t make experimental work by copying past work.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Don’t let your past define you, let it mold you into the person you want to be

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

One minute you are here and the next moment you are some place else, some time a long ago. That is the thing about your mind. Memories. Everything still exists in the folds of your...

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

Sometimes when you dig deep into the past, you shed uncontrollable tears.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.

By picking him up again, i guess you’re just lost, baby. Lost.

Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment.

I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to...

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Have only this consolation–that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled...

You can’t let your past write the future

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.