You can’t let your past write the future

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

It’s a start, and I want to start. I just want to stay healthy past tomorrow and go from there.

Of the 14 bull markets in the S&P 500 index over the past 75 years, fewer than half have lived to celebrate a fourth anniversary.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

I told the players in the dressing room (after the game) to look past this, and remember what we had accomplished this season. I thought we played hard … we didn’t play great … but...

It shows the pope is not obsessed with the past, but is keeping his options open and is willing to do unconventional things that even the innermost Vatican circles don’t expect.

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?…But where did that knowledge exist? Only...

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human...

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

The past screams louder than the future. The future is mute, but it’s not deaf.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

I collect the most valuable thing in the world—free time. But unlike other priceless things, I don’t need a safe to keep it safe, because I keep all my free time in the past, where...

I think Taylor has spent a little more time with this one. We’re way past the days of being shocked by anything that happens in recruiting circles, but this one looks pretty darned solid.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones–I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now....

I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens’ past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens...

We’ve noted over the past year that 401(k) participants’ reaction to the bear market has been best characterized as

It’s been there in the past. We just have to put all the pieces together.

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

He’s probably the best defensive player the world’s seen over the past 20 years.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and...

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

So this sort of thing has happened in the past many times with many teams.

The past two years, I’ve competed at the all-around without my team. Now that the team is going to be behind me and I’m going to be competing for my scores to count for the...

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

Living your life through negative feelings and memories is doing yourself a dishonour.If you want to change you need to be willing to leave your past wounds behind you. -If you wish to remain stuck...

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away...

Leave the past as beautifully as it needs to be a road map for your present and future

Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. – Anita

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Forget your past,Use your pain;Accept that pain,And Achieve the gain.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

It?s already a great feeling to be third on the list. To get past Borg, I will have to reach the final in Barcelona next week. It won?t be easy. I could lose any day....

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I’ve watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think – the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens...

You can’t convince a CEO there won’t be another war, especially when we’ve had two in the past two years. It’s not a conducive environment for investment.

To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It’s a natural instinct. They don’t think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or...

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor...

Nothing is but what is now

Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is...

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during...

I’ve seen how the Eagles have done things in the past … as far as players talking about their contracts in the media.

Today is a major step in cleaning up the past. This is a plan that will enable us to leverage our core brands and increase cash flow. I still believe the basic foundation of this...