Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely.

Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent – Le passé, non l’avenir)

True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down...

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with...

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe’re on the verge of all things new

One can’t deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we’ve created and the people with whom we have been linked. It’s all...

I don’t know if we were in as good game condition as we have been in the past.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards...

The Australian dollar has underperformed because there is a feeling it’s past its best days in terms of a high-yielding currency.

Large organizations don’t worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn’t take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes. Is the life of mind something like that of great...

I can’t re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

Dreams are things from the past. They aren’t from the future. That wasn’t you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I’d say. But I wasn’t convinced.

My information is based on yesterday’s newspaper. But that’s OK, because I’m living in the past. It’s always two days ago to me.

Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.

The officials must turn back and look over the past seven years and find out what has gone wrong,

Eric Brewer has been a premier defenseman in the NHL for the past several seasons, and we are very excited about the talents he brings to the Blues. We are also adding two skilled younger...

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

The biggest thing is that I’ve got past the injury. I’m one of the few guys who actually did benefit from the lockout.

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded—that’s how I feel about her....

There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song...

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor’s edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It’s the only way I can live.

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so? When I was a medical student some pranksters at the end-of-the-term dance released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease....

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It’s always on silent, and I don’t like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the...

Look I’ve played seven best-of-five setters over the past two weeks. I need a break.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.

I don’t think anyone’s past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.

Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it’s not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Every thing has changed but my mind never.