I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Le présent serait plein de tous les avenirs, si le passé n’y projetait déjà une histoire.

it is as it is”. And yet, I am saying this to you. Because it is, as it is. Reality is rather painful than acceptable. And yet we have to live through it, try to...

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn’t our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn’t there a story there, one unknown, full of...

It has been said, people drawn to law enforcement have a sixth sense, an ability to see what others do not. He prayed he was wrong. His sixth sense said there was much more than...

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

Looking backwardsHas never been my endeavorLost passions… bruised emotionsNever distressed me.

I definitely made it a point this week to not let up because in the past sometimes when I have won, the next week I have not quite played as well. I was maybe a...

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c’est l’équilibre – Du passé et du futur)

Maybe the past is an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you are to become who you will be.

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

This [has] been going on for years. The psychiatric model [of the past] has been mainstreamed. And now, the system’s coming for all of us.

Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York...

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn’t try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, “You may regret this,” would have been fine.

It puzzled me that other people hadn’t found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn’t they see it? It still puzzles me.

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We’re shaped by our past, and we’re shaping our future with our present.

From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls;And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.’What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to...

I can’t. You can’t rewrite the past.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries...

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life’s final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation’s history.

Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don’t wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

I’m currently drinking a coffee cup full of yesterday and thinking about tomorrow. My past is so dark it makes me think my future could use some cream.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past… And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

The all-knowing yesterday is obsolete today.

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run…. I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent events, it...

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

The saber rattling (albeit strongly watered down in the past few hours) coming from the White House and the wayward chatter coming out of Tehran once again clashed on the world political scene.

Oh, Myr,” he chokes out. “I hate having to ask this of you…”He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it’s too dark for him to see whether the...

We should be working together with Iowa as we have in the past to protect the status and relevance of the first-in-the-nation caucus and the first-in-the-nation primary,

Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were.

Performance varies quite a bit, although the sector funds have had a lot of success the past few years.

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 something like...

No hay razón para dar prioridad a los monumentos ante la vida; su propio monumento sólo tiene en este momento una significación: puede utilizarlo en provecho de su despreciado cuerpo; el hombreque está sentado a...

My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.

I’m interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn’t survive and I’m examining closely the reasons they failed.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

I suppose that’s the secret. If you’re ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up.

Vertex shares are once again challenging our price target and with the stock up 250% over the past year, investors may be asking what to do with the stock. We would stick with Vertex.

It’s a gamble – if they get blown out like they have the past three years I don’t think [the game] will make a good impression in the slightest. They have to play well and...

Tai, ką galiausiai prisimeni, ne visada yra tas pats, ką patyrei

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It’s kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It’s amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit...

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.