This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past....

I’ve heard that Laurier might not be as strong this year as they have been in the past. However, I try not to look too much into what people are saying about teams until we...

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

You can’t let your past hold your future hostage.

We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then...

Judge the past and draw a map for the future

Visibility wasn’t too good the past couple of days.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

In the past it has been extremely difficult to plan a successful tennis season with a six month staff. The nine month position will allow us to be more prepared and run a better program.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that’s always been there, and the next minute it’s just a memory.

I looked back at past yearly catches, and they resembled what we saw last month.

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated ‘wholeness’ of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes....

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I’ve been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like,...

It is something that is in the past to me. As far as my teammates and coaches, I have dealt with them to a point where we know that it is something that definitely won’t...

True stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Our government leaders… have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of...

…the very old men […] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing...

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such...

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

The disk drive market is structurally in better shape than it has been in past seven years,

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me.

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

What’s past is prologue.

It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the...

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.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can...

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

…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...