Since you can't change the past, you should use it to focus on changing your present and your future — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past. — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?” “Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,” Gideon replied. “Said he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past,… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside… — David Antin Copy Share Image
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
My job is very close to what an archaeologist does: giving meaning to things that happened in the past. — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“Over the past seven years she had managed to push his memory so far back in her mind that he could’ve been… — Vivian Winslow Copy Share Image
It never would have occurred to me in 'Days of Future Past' to cast Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, and yet as… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.”8” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the… — Alycia Debnam-Carey Copy Share Image
The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or… — Patty Smyth Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age,… — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that's really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that. — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our… — Dodinsky Copy Share Image
I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
Don't go a day without remembering who you are. Don't go a day without imagining who you'll be. And don't go a… — Becca Copy Share Image
Divinity is the elementary personality of a human being. When he can stand before corruption and win, that is an undivided personality.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
