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...

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States

We should kill the future, so the present has no choice but to retreat into the past.

All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will...

I passed my past, because if I could get any of it back, I’d only want about a quarterback. That 25% would be the love I had for her, before I fumbled it away.

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang...

It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

I wouldn’t have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, ‘Just seeng!’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know...

As a matter of fact, in the past three years, the state has … drawn down more bonus dollars than in the previous seven years combined,

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

That’s a very different approach to what the CAW has done in the past.

Cassandra wondered at the mind’s cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life’s end, her grandmother’s head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was...

There is nothing worse, is there,” she said, “than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the...

Futures are not for everyone, but with major stock indexes flat to down over the past five-year period, even buy-and-hold equity strategies have risks. With the recent activity in foreign exchange rates and commodities such...

Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

Just in the past two or three days, the phones have been ringing off the hook here. I think this disaster is helping more people make the connections and see the ways this war is...

What happened in Your past will help accelerate you to your future

Within the LDP, there are now very few who speak out as loudly (for farmers) as in the past and the number of farm-related lawmakers with rational views has grown.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious.

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

We’re clueless as to what is happening, … not only in regard to the past program but (also) current activity.

Past is a book about decisions .

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!