Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor...

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try...

Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Mayhap it was not wise to question God’s plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future…

Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other...

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona – this thing, this face, this person who writes this music… I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person...

I’ve spent the past couple of days in Washington, talking to people at the Federal Reserve and the [White House] Council of Economic Advisers, and this issue came up, … The consensus seems to be...

The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to them, and they would stir beneath the burden that lay upon them, and...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information...

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

What may have happened in the past, it doesn’t matter. This is a different year and a new team that’s constructed a different way. Today, you saw what it is that we’re excited about.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

In past years, guys were racing out the door trying to get out of here. Now it’s almost a shock that the season is over. We really believed we could take this thing all the...

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt....

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all,...

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...

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.

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: ‘Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start?...

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Things unraveled more quickly in the past year than they thought internally, so they need to get someone from the outside to improve investor perception, preferably someone from the data networking industry.

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.