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.

She’d cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn’t feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just … empty. It felt like she was...

The future is now! Don’t make that second pass you into regrets.

Strike a match, ignite my past.

Looking at his stats — and what he’s done in the past with the world juniors — he’s definitely having a good year.

In the past, it was always … maybe in three or four years you’ll be a guy that is competitive. People expect you to be competitive your first year out now. Some of the older...

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm...

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It...

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we’re older. Things change.

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That’s why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision.

I never stopped loving her,” he said. “I couldn’t let her go. Once the past gets you in its clutches, well, you’ve got to want to fight to be released. I never did. That was...

We don’t run many plays for her at all, which is different than we had in the past. But the grand scheme was to make everybody feel important. So her minutes have gone down, her...

Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?

Even though we lost a lot we still got some people who can play. We’ve proven that in the past and we’ve corrected our mistakes from last week and I think we’re going to have...

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind in the...

The bank probably felt the dollar had gained enough in the past days, and it didn’t want to put more pressure in the market.

Life is easier when you don’t carry baggage from the past.

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of...

He had so examined his past that he could no longer look at it with enough detachment to tell what was true and what wasn’t,

Over the past five years, the president has made the right call over and over again. This is one time. Nobody wants to come to a giant battle over this. We want homeland security. He...

Probably I’m changing my thinking about this in the past two or three years,

One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past...

Her and I, we passed each other, and now she’s in my past. That’s one present I’d like to unwrap in the future.

The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down...

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and...

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones–I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now....

I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens’ past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens...