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...

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we’ve built up to do what we do now.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

No other past presidential candidate, with the exception of McCain, has done what Kerry has done in terms of converting his presidential campaign into a grass-roots political and legislative operation. He’s dedicated to electing Democrats.

The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the...

I’m not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

Over the past 30 years, our studies have demonstrated a strong relationship between journal article citations and peer esteem, and this is reflected in professional awards like the Nobel Prize.

It speaks a lot for our players that we kept our composure and didn’t fold. In the past we would have folded and laid down and let them walk all over us.

Skeptics will point to other waves of innovations in the past, but things are happening at lightning speed here. Two years ago no one knew what ‘dot com’ was.

It’s long overdue. They’ve talked about this over the past several years.

After being up 260 points over past two days, the market is entitled to a pullback.

The world has changed. It’s like ‘The Time Machine.’ They fell asleep and woke up and the world moved past them.

Et voilà, mon passé n’est plus qu’un trou énorme. Mon présent: cette bonne au corsage noir qui rêve près du comptoir, ce petit bonhomme. Tout ce que je sais de ma vie, il me semble...

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.

The drop in stocks is taking the weight off bonds. The decline of the past couple of months has been overdone.

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.

Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to, doesn’t mean the future can’t be better than you ever imagined.

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you....

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n’est rien qu’un peu de passé en retard.

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a...

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story...

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?