Hi, I’m from the future, and I’m here to destroy you.” But that is irrational. The future me isn’t out to destroy me, because the me of my past already did a thorough job demolishing...

He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future.

Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, “On! on!” — but o’er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering...

Being a leader doesn’t mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu’il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

You can never go back to a specific moment. That’s why it’s important to live in the present and not the past. Don’t let foolish memories get in the way of the makings of new...

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Coach Williams and I discussed this matter some time in the past and will talk again after both of us have had a chance to review the report. Coach Williams has a long and distinguished...

Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 percent last year. Sales in the first-half of this year have continued to be...

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little; the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

Reinsurance is an industry that has had a difficult time over the past few years, and we’re disappointed in our results, … We are committed to running ERC effectively for our investors. This includes profitability...

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

I stay focused for every match. I don’t look ahead or past anybody.

It’s something that I’ve been really excited about for the past week. I’ve kind of picked the brains of some friends on other teams – ‘Who did you vote for, what’s going on?’ – and...

There is no mystery to happiness.Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn- or worse, indifference-...

You can’t let the past ruin your future, I changed over in my mind.

I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned somehow. It hurts to think of it that way. And even though I...

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

In physics, yes. In people, no.

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live...

I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an animal, in a plant,...

TIME IS THE SOURCE OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies heonly appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people tocry...

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we...

I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I...

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that’s what caused me to be like this, it’s not my fault. Permit me to...

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact...

It’s painful when the phantom of the past keeps on lingering you even you wanted to move on.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the...

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries – first Europe and then the U.S. – has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but...

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.

What you saw today is exactly what he has done the past couple of weekends when he?s gotten to pitch. He?s proving his worth on the mound. You need somebody to stop the bleeding.

In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The book club. Theater. Having conversations.

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

It doesn’t really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you’ve become.

Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,Yet they have created,A word that will last.

How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

Past experience doesn’t go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future...

When you don’t have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

In the past few seasons, have we had some good playoff matches? Yeah, we have. Are we looking for an opportunity to have another one against them? I think that would be a lot of...

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

It’s not a good idea.

Don’t look at the past six months. Look at the past five, 10 or 20 years of returns.

Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently ‘Sarah’ had only been thrown into a plastic bag and left in the...

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.