I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?” She studied him, her eyes grave. “Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

Nostalgia”How often we use this word reminiscing about the past – our childhood, school days, college days.. We feel nostalgic, we dwell in the memories of the past, we talk about how great those days...

I know you have been critically looking at the mores and customs of the past and questioning their value. Every generation does that. But don’t discard the time-tested values upon which civilization has been built...

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes–to me a beatitude–is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses...

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by. Arising unchained.No glorious...

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he’ll find the right door, hoping he’ll find the key.

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

People didn’t know everything then. There were things people had never seen before. Places nobody had ever been. You could make up a story and people would believe it…also maybe it seems like it would...

There will be absolutely no release of MRTA prisoners, … We would not like to go back to the past.

In the past couple of years, I think the seniors have experienced some of the letdowns that have occurred after emotional games and they don’t want it to happen again. Don’t think I’ll have to...

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that “past” which “ought not to be stirred up.

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his...

The simultaneity of near and far confused me; I thought it possible to find the past, the present and the future united in one place, giving it all that life can hold; but I had...

Die Vergangenheit war wie jene altmodischen, mit Kräutern und Blumen gefüllten Duftkissen, deren Aroma die Kleider durchdringt und an ihnen haften bleibt.

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind – at least that part...

In the dark, neglected gutter running the length of a nearby secluded side street lies a small, lifeless bird. This is the blackcap – the unaccustomed northern nightingale – a creature with a charcoal greyness...

It’s not easy remembering the good times.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies – and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words...

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

A 10-year yield near 5 percent offers value. Yields have risen quite quickly over the past few weeks.

it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing – from the...

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape.

The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery).

I had my chance.’ He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. ‘I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you...

Fiecare trăim istoria după mintea noastră, deci o percepem diferit.

Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures. Since it’s quite far from one end to the other they...

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it’s only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

Over the past 10 years, systematic violations of U.N. arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it’s so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…

But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?

sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it’ll never repeat again

Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

We have to rely on what we’ve done in the past. To do fresh things at this stage would only confuse rather than enhance.

Forget the past. Tomorrow is a new day. New day, new hopes and new life.

We won a few wars and we lost a few wars today. Here in the past week, we lost (five) players to Division I(-A) programs. But at the same time we were able to get...

… truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

Coach 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...

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars

But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile...

They don’t have as many skilled players as in the past. They don’t have much of an offense and they don’t have as many powerful hitters. Their defense is OK.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.