The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past

I am the Today Monster, and I’m hungry for yesterday. And I’m thirsty for coffee, which is like drinking tomorrow.

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn’t allow if I wanted to survive.

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us…a difficult moment when you are out of practice – a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

The scheme is fine; it’s worked in the past. It’s always worked. It’s a matter of us executing it. That’s been the problem. When we’re not on our details, it causes big problems.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday

I told the guys if we could get past Polk, we have a good shot at surprising West Wilkes (22-1) in the second round. We’ve been doing that all year. We beat Myers Park, which...

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.

The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

L’avenir n’est qu’un vide indifférent qui n’intéresse personne, mais le passé est plein de vie et son visage irrite, révolte, blesse, au point que nous voulons le détruire et le repeindre.

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings…Our way of life...

If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.

by now you’ve already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person’s past has nothing to do with his future. you...

I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

We’ve played some teams in the past couple weeks that really like to slow the tempo. While they’ve dictated tempo, what I’ve been pleased with is our ability to be patient. Our shot selection has...

You just have to find a way to get past this first game sometimes. On Saturday, maybe we’ll settle in and play a little bit better.

Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq’s agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It...

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

Most people believe it won’t happen to them. They feel like because they’ve used fireworks in the past without incident that it’ll be OK.

The past, rich with it’s pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize.

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we’re in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to...

It’s a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter,

The past might hurt but don’t run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

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...