I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?” She studied him, her eyes grave. “Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

Nostalgia”How often we use this word reminiscing about the past – our childhood, school days, college days.. We feel nostalgic, we dwell in the memories of the past, we talk about how great those days...

I know you have been critically looking at the mores and customs of the past and questioning their value. Every generation does that. But don’t discard the time-tested values upon which civilization has been built...

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes–to me a beatitude–is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses...

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

We’re definitely still looking at Georgia. We’re not looking past the SEC Tournament or anything like that. Again, momentum, seeding all those things are very important, so I’m not really worried about us looking past...

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

I had been struggling a little over the past few days but this was great,

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create...

I don’t talk about my past; people ask me about it. I’ve done things I’m ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I’ve done that I regret, I’ve never done...

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with...

Mr. Rawlings is a man of his word. The problem was, he made two different promises and he felt honored to keep them both. He hoped that by fulfilling one, in a different than expected...

If these two past trade deadlines have been indicative of the lack of willingness for people wanting to trade, it’s going to be tough to retool your team to a significant extent.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

The water, sanitation and security seem far better than those over the past few years.

Leave a person alone who had a unpleasant past if you cant make his future a pleasant, you would do worse

It toughens you up. Sometimes you go into little streaks of, why is this and this happening? I’m past that. If I’m going to be a manager and do this for a long period, these...

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

In the dark, neglected gutter running the length of a nearby secluded side street lies a small, lifeless bird. This is the blackcap – the unaccustomed northern nightingale – a creature with a charcoal greyness...

It’s not easy remembering the good times.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies – and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words...

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

A 10-year yield near 5 percent offers value. Yields have risen quite quickly over the past few weeks.

it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing – from the...

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape.

The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery).

I had my chance.’ He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. ‘I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you...

Fiecare trăim istoria după mintea noastră, deci o percepem diferit.

Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures. Since it’s quite far from one end to the other they...

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it’s only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

Over the past 10 years, systematic violations of U.N. arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it’s so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…

But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?

sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it’ll never repeat again

Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

We have to rely on what we’ve done in the past. To do fresh things at this stage would only confuse rather than enhance.

Forget the past. Tomorrow is a new day. New day, new hopes and new life.

We won a few wars and we lost a few wars today. Here in the past week, we lost (five) players to Division I(-A) programs. But at the same time we were able to get...

… truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

Coach Casey’s been very supportive, … We talked in depth about my past and my situation and some of my challenges over the years. He gave me nothing but support. … When a coach does...

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars

But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile...

They don’t have as many skilled players as in the past. They don’t have much of an offense and they don’t have as many powerful hitters. Their defense is OK.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.