It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams.… — J. C. Hutchins 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
It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You can't look in the future and can't dwell on the past. It's all about the present and what you do each… — Alex de Minaur Copy Share Image
We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People think of time as a continuum composed of points which is stretched out at a line, and even if you add… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
And for those of us who have, you know, looked in sort of the established order of the political fray over the… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy.… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Accept the past without regrets. Handle your present with confidence and your future without fear. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
