If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

The older I get, the more I’ve got going for me. Each yesterday is a new me I’ve got working for my collective experience, like an army of clones.

Widge can see the past.” Poppet says suddenly. “That’s why his stories are so good.” “The past is easier,” Widget says. “It’s already there.””In the stars?” Bailey asks.”No.” Widget says. “On people. The past stays...

I didn’t write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend...

The thing that’s changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I...

Jen remains unbeaten on the season with a dominating win. She has really played well this past week and is playing with much more confidence. Amy played her first varsity matches of the season and...

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he’s been a...

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the...

And I did wonder – because it’s now three years ago since I left prison – whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as...

I think we’re a working group, … In the past, I couldn’t say we were the hardest-working group collectively. You had individuals who worked hard, like Aaron and myself. Now you have a whole bunch...

Living is like driving,” my grandmother used to say. “You have to pick a lane.” Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my...

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past....

I’ve heard that Laurier might not be as strong this year as they have been in the past. However, I try not to look too much into what people are saying about teams until we...

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

You can’t let your past hold your future hostage.

We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then...

Judge the past and draw a map for the future

Visibility wasn’t too good the past couple of days.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

In the past it has been extremely difficult to plan a successful tennis season with a six month staff. The nine month position will allow us to be more prepared and run a better program.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that’s always been there, and the next minute it’s just a memory.

I looked back at past yearly catches, and they resembled what we saw last month.

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated ‘wholeness’ of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes....

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I’ve been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like,...

It is something that is in the past to me. As far as my teammates and coaches, I have dealt with them to a point where we know that it is something that definitely won’t...

True stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Our government leaders… have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of...

…the very old men […] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing...

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such...

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

The disk drive market is structurally in better shape than it has been in past seven years,

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me.

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

What’s past is prologue.

It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the...

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn’t change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.

We have run a number of campaigns in the past and have worked on a number of war issues, but there’s virtually nothing going on on this campus in terms of human rights. This is...

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

‘Mad Men’ doesn’t capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.