Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn’t change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.

We have run a number of campaigns in the past and have worked on a number of war issues, but there’s virtually nothing going on on this campus in terms of human rights. This is...

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

‘Mad Men’ doesn’t capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.

…the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

I don’t want that boy to fall over for just a bird that forgot that her wings are broken.

The influence of the future on the past,” said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

The chances today are better than they were in the past. I still think there are some barriers we would have to overcome.

I think I’ve always had the shots. But in the past, I’ve suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I’m starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are...

The past will disappear if we forget we existed”.

Our cost efforts are more important than ever, given the softness we have seen in demand, both in past quarters as well as the current quarter, … Despite this slowdown, it is our intention to...

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

It could be yesterdaywhen I was less in loveI thinkFor I didn’t see you in the mirrorbehind mewhile getting dressed.The way your hands couldn’t stay awayand our bodies always found their ways back to each...

Don’t worry about the past and don’t try to figure out the future

Rules for Living by Olivia Joules14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:15) Don’t regret anything. Remember there wasn’t anything else that could...

I always thought I was healthy, thought I was healthy as a horse, but the past five months I’ve been sick three times with the same upper respiratory infection.

Yesterday is as ancient as a millennia ago, because both are forever out of reach.

It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we...

I don’t really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I didn’t play on any of the other teams in the past 88 years here, so I’m not part of that history, … I’m on the 2005 team and that’s all I really care about.

Seltsam sei es und ungerecht, sagte Gauß, so recht ein Beispiel für die erbärmliche Zufälligkeit der Existenz, dass man in einer bestimmten Zeit geboren und ihr verhaftet sei, ob man wolle oder nicht. Es verschaffe...

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended...

Before you ask God for more blessings, try to first thank Him for all your past and present blessings in your life.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can’t be too careful.

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

It has taken six months for me to get past my injuries.

It’s a little bit harder this past week to get up and to walk to the bathroom in the morning. It’s much easier in space,

You can’t sail towards your future if you’re still anchored in the past.

In the past three to four sessions, investors have been getting back into tech stocks. The movement is out of drugs and oils and into Internets.

While many of the stocks in this group are already down by 50 percent over the past several weeks, we believe that inventory concerns, coupled with telecom service-provider capital-spending concerns, will weigh on the group...

Your past success is a foundation into future success.

She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever there...

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother’s mother. Your father’s mother’s mother’s mother. I hardly knew her. I didn’t have any interest in knowing...

Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere,...

The Pac-10 obviously did pretty well against the SEC this past week, … Our players need to be aware of that and know that our league is nationally-known and when we go play places people...

… so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann’s park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the...

Sabemos que el pasado, el presente y el porvenir ya están, minucia por minucia, en la profética mente de Dios, en Su eternidad; lo extraño es que los hombres puedan mirar, indefinidamente, hacia atrás pero...

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.

Our parents’ generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance....

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to...

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn’t mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, ‘Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from...

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.