Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq’s future and not a part of Iraq’s past.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

When people initially think of the term ‘space archaeologist,’ they think, ‘Oh, it’s someone who uses satellites to look for alien settlements on Mars or in outer space,’ but the opposite is true – we’re...

The shutter of the photographer’s camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.

People don’t realize that the future is just now, but later.

Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don’t be ashamed of the things that you’ve done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don’t you see? All of those things helped shape you into the beautiful person that...

I always joked in years past that when that time came I would send a fax in from the Caribbean. And I actually booked a flight and went down to St. Kitts at the end...

you don’t need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time...

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own...

I’ve never seen the industry so optimistic in the past four years as they are now. Unfortunately, some storm always comes up to rain on the parade.

It’s unclear whether he would be as committed (as Hashimoto) and as forceful on fiscal consolidation. Hashimoto has a past record to go on. So for Koizumi, there’s a question mark there as well.

Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.

We’ve recovered stolen vehicles in the past, yes. But now we have the likelihood to catch a lot more.

I feel healthy. It’s plain and simple. I’ve been struggling with injuries. Two broken legs the past three years doesn’t help. I went through a full season in pain last year and just suffered. Going...

People don’t get to our ages without having pasts. I’m more interested in the future.

(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and…all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that’s what attics are for.

He’s been doing wrestling and competitive-type stuff for the past month.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word...

In my heart, I’m 100% real. You can’t pull out nothing in my past that can say I’m not 100% real.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

The wear and tear of the clay-court season is something that has set me back in the past in terms of the grass-court season, and the grass is something that I don’t want to miss...

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that...

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the...

I have not a clue whether it will be more successful in 2006 than we have been in the past. But we’ve got to try every possible approach that we can. The conditions are too...

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest…

Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely.

Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent – Le passé, non l’avenir)

True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down...

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with...

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe’re on the verge of all things new

One can’t deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we’ve created and the people with whom we have been linked. It’s all...

I don’t know if we were in as good game condition as we have been in the past.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards...

The Australian dollar has underperformed because there is a feeling it’s past its best days in terms of a high-yielding currency.

Large organizations don’t worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn’t take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes. Is the life of mind something like that of great...

I can’t re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

Dreams are things from the past. They aren’t from the future. That wasn’t you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I’d say. But I wasn’t convinced.

My information is based on yesterday’s newspaper. But that’s OK, because I’m living in the past. It’s always two days ago to me.

Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.