Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those...

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, … Because of that, the final reading very well could have come...

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one’s Tuesday.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

We’ve been lucky for the past 30 years. So many more issues could have arisen. This ordinance will make all our jobs a lot easier.

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay – and it’s usually most wise to start today.

When you look at the whole (technology) space, the spending over the past 10 to 15 years has all been about corporate computing. But the next stage is going to be all about home entertainment....

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. … That is no gap between the generations, that is a...

don’t make too much noise”. October’s dust in my lungs, maybe I don’t want bits of four AM lingering in my subconscious. Smokers breathe in fire, coat their insides in ash. Is that suicide or...

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you...

No matter how much you revisit the past, there’s nothing new to see.

Whereas in the past people were more politically correct in dealing with others …(now) all they care about is winning.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an “excuse me”. Typical.

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.—I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments...

“I’m not good enough…” These are lies the demons of your past use to scare away the possibilities of the present.

China wants to win the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese people, so in the past few months they have said very little about reunification.

Do not live WITH what you had done…Live FOR what you have to do.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn’t certain about what their real aim was – nor am I now.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

Sighting of things like porpoises in the estuary have become more frequent in the past five years – indicating that fish have become more abundant which in turn shows how much cleaner the river is...

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed...

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

We had a 15-, 20-point lead. We were just whistling down the street. Now we’re whistling past the graveyard.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

A man cannot fully embrace his future—until he first releases his past.

As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future –a terrible festival of dead leaves.

It’s time to forget about the past, To wash away what happened last, Hide behind an empty face, Don’t act too much, just say, ‘Cause this is just a game.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn’t go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as...

The Looking Glass- Wish it bares abides in us.It lies’ just yesterday my skin glowed in it’Today it pales like it never bloomed.

The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.

The city is sore with movement, but still it oscillates. Busy people churn through grey-toned streets, their briefcases held close, rustling against trouser legs. The collective machine is tired, but each worker drives on. Gleaming...

Even in past years, when I wasn’t in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

In the past, it’s been a tough place to get a result. They do a good job of playing at home on a big field. Teams that go in there have a tough time adjusting...

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Aprender acerca del presente a la luz del pasado quiere también decir aprender del pasado a la luz del presente. La función de la historia es la de estimular una mas profunda comprensión tanto del...

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West,...

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft...

Gone are the days when success depends on how you use your muscle tissues. In this 21st century, your brain cells must work more than your muscle tissues!

Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!

This is not a withdrawn pope who looks to the past. He looks at the situation as it is and is capable of listening,

The past is a curious thing. It’s with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the...

There ain’t a man in the world cares about a woman’s past until he’s thinking of her in his future.

We’re all definitely excited to see him play. We’ve been sitting on our hands over the past year, waiting to see him play.

Only fools prefer the past!

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.