Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I… — Robert Wilkie Copy Share Image
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Historically marginalised people - by gender, race or nationality - aren't willing to be silent any longer on the crimes of the… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Be good to your siblings...They're your closest link to your past & the ones most likely to be there with you into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in… — Noel 'Razor' Smith Copy Share Image
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid… — Orosius Copy Share Image
The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday;… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
...O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
“Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning. — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
We all have that one person we'd take back any second. No matter how much they hurt us in the past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you… — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
My past is my past ok. it has made me who I am. I have NO regrets, wouldn't change it, I just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Whatever we have done in the past has no meaning. What's important are the things which we are doing now. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“Forget not the past. The past prepares us for the present. The present equipped us for the future.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
If you're based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages everywhere. On a bad day, returning to… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
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