In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I realize I've had this spirit-animal relationship with sweatpants. In a past life, I probably was a pair of sweatpants. There's something… — Grace Helbig Copy Share Image
Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past.… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
We've watched film in years past where I was getting beat and it wasn't always because of the lack of agility and… — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we… — Wilfred James Dolor Copy Share Image
Our actions of the past should not define who we are today. Our actions of today should help to define who we… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
In years past, comedy and fashion just haven't often gone hand in hand, so even though I love it, it wasn't something… — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and… — Sergey Karaganov Copy Share Image
For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
You can't have rosy thoughts about the future if your mind is full of the blues about the past. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Allow me to correct you on two things: number one, the reason John Cena isn't here tonight has nothing to do with… — Wade Barrett Copy Share Image
I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt… — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
