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)

Maybe the past is an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you are to become who you will be.

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

This [has] been going on for years. The psychiatric model [of the past] has been mainstreamed. And now, the system’s coming for all of us.

Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York...

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn’t try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, “You may regret this,” would have been fine.

It puzzled me that other people hadn’t found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn’t they see it? It still puzzles me.

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We’re shaped by our past, and we’re shaping our future with our present.

From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls;And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.’What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to...

I can’t. You can’t rewrite the past.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries...

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life’s final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation’s history.

Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don’t wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

I’m currently drinking a coffee cup full of yesterday and thinking about tomorrow. My past is so dark it makes me think my future could use some cream.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past… And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

The all-knowing yesterday is obsolete today.

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run…. I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent events, it...

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

The saber rattling (albeit strongly watered down in the past few hours) coming from the White House and the wayward chatter coming out of Tehran once again clashed on the world political scene.

Oh, Myr,” he chokes out. “I hate having to ask this of you…”He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it’s too dark for him to see whether the...

We should be working together with Iowa as we have in the past to protect the status and relevance of the first-in-the-nation caucus and the first-in-the-nation primary,

Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were.

Performance varies quite a bit, although the sector funds have had a lot of success the past few years.

I often laughed, and you often gave me a dissatisfied look, till you pressed me to unfold my past before you as if it were a roll of pictures. It was then I felt respect...

I learned to put 100 percent into what you’re doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and...

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how...

Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, ‘You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.’ It’s saying, ‘You don’t get to trap me in...

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o’er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Not even God can change the past.

One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster.

A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!” Aunt Augusta in Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree.

Dear Ted: Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM is long past my bedtime.

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

There’s some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They’re the most dangerous.

Memories rob us of the present.

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith’s revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to...

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?