I didn’t much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

I think to one degree or another we have been arrogant in the past.

Right now we don’t see anything ominous in the numbers, just a real estate cycle that is past the frenzy phase.

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is...

So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I’m past all that.

A great deal has changed in San Joaquin County in the past 14 years.

(We should be) recognizing the past — what was here in the past and acknowledging that — as well as looking forward to the future, and a project that is world-class.

What sort of future is coming up from behind I don’t really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

[ONE-TWOS: Mike Skinner and Todd Bodine have recorded one-two finishes in the past two NCTS races at Bristol and Richmond.] I’m not too disappointed with finishing second to Mike twice in a row, … In...

but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

Never forget the pastTo lead the future best

He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him – possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he’d had since he thought, Hey, I’ll get Percy to swim in the River Styx!...

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that’s different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that’s slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Unlike the influenza pandemics of the past, this time the world has been given a warning that one may be on its way.

In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

The West always seems to expect a hard landing in China. Yet in three instances over the past decade, China has proved the doubters wrong.

Our number in both the reserves and mounted patrol have fallen off over the past couple of years, so we wanted to have this meeting and try to get some more interest in these much-needed...

No one can escape their past. The sins we’ve committed… and the sadness we’ve caused… No matter how far we run, our past remains, as ever-present as the moon in the sky. It looms in...

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if...

When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don’t try to hook up with it again.

There comes a time in your life, when you are left with too many yesterdays and very less tomorrows. When you can look back and relive all the golden moments of your life. You would...

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events...

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

You remain so silent,as carried away,through mist of your thoughts,so dark and so deep,and even awake same as when asleep,waiting for enlightenment of a newborn day.I’m bound to your silence,to the core i’m bound,to delicate...

Widzę przeszłość wyraźniej niż teraźniejszość. Przecież to, co jest nabiera sensu dopiero, gdy minie.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn’t work.

Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can’t hurt anyone.

Let’s create a new memory,where our futures will fall back for strength

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn’t mean that at all. It means that you’re afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do...

One’s past can’t be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Americans get it. They’re ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven’t had in the past.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

When you understand, that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realize the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past...

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but...

Three rules to obey!1. Don’t be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don’t be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today’s miseries!

That’s when it hit me. I had to go through a lot of bad relationships first, but I’d finally found him. My very own Prince Charming. Turns out they do exist.Touché, Cinderella. Touché.

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That’s my motto!—But a man’s just a plain bum who don’t provide for his own Past!

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They’re very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has...

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we’ll all get home safely.

This is like an offensive dream, being a part of this lineup the past couple of days.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.