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.

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...

We’ve noted over the past year that 401(k) participants’ reaction to the bear market has been best characterized as

It’s been there in the past. We just have to put all the pieces together.

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

He’s probably the best defensive player the world’s seen over the past 20 years.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and...

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

So this sort of thing has happened in the past many times with many teams.

The past two years, I’ve competed at the all-around without my team. Now that the team is going to be behind me and I’m going to be competing for my scores to count for the...

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

Living your life through negative feelings and memories is doing yourself a dishonour.If you want to change you need to be willing to leave your past wounds behind you. -If you wish to remain stuck...

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away...

Leave the past as beautifully as it needs to be a road map for your present and future

Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. – Anita

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Forget your past,Use your pain;Accept that pain,And Achieve the gain.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

It?s already a great feeling to be third on the list. To get past Borg, I will have to reach the final in Barcelona next week. It won?t be easy. I could lose any day....

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I’ve watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think – the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens...

You can’t convince a CEO there won’t be another war, especially when we’ve had two in the past two years. It’s not a conducive environment for investment.

To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It’s a natural instinct. They don’t think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or...

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor...