The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies heonly appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people tocry...

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we...

I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I...

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that’s what caused me to be like this, it’s not my fault. Permit me to...

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some...

…the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made me who I am now… To...

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are...

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries – first Europe and then the U.S. – has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but...

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.

What you saw today is exactly what he has done the past couple of weekends when he?s gotten to pitch. He?s proving his worth on the mound. You need somebody to stop the bleeding.

In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The book club. Theater. Having conversations.

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

It doesn’t really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you’ve become.

Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,Yet they have created,A word that will last.

How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

Past experience doesn’t go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future...

When you don’t have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

In the past few seasons, have we had some good playoff matches? Yeah, we have. Are we looking for an opportunity to have another one against them? I think that would be a lot of...

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

It’s not a good idea.

Don’t look at the past six months. Look at the past five, 10 or 20 years of returns.

Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently ‘Sarah’ had only been thrown into a plastic bag and left in the...

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.

And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and did they leave their front doors open, did they leave their kids with the neighbors, pay social...

There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them....

The past,’ he thought, ‘is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.’ And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain;...

Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there’s nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better...

Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.

I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn’t that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.

I’m 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

The past is no good if you can’t learn from it; therefore, no sense in dwelling on it.

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

With some of the things that happened in the past and earlier in the season, I knew we were going to go through a tough stretch. We have to stay strong. … we can’t give...

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

How did it make you feel?

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first...

She had only been here 10 days over the past couple of months. They come and they spend a certain number of hours.

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me… I said in the past that I’m a work in progress,...

He was a prisoner to the calendar, he realised, as we all were. He thought in little boxes that were to be ticked off and filled with things to do. Almost every day he thought...

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them...

Page 99: “…unless something changes, the future that you can expect is more of the past. Sorry or becoming committed does not make Jim Carrey a great golfer, or made Jack nicklaus funny. Recommitment does...