Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On… — William Watson Copy Share Image
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all… — Ruth Carter Stapleton Copy Share Image
Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
“He moved on down the alley, his feet walking forward and his brain swimming backward through a sea of time. It was… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art.… — Jorg Immendorff Copy Share Image
A true God chaser is not happy with just past truth; he must have present truth. God chasers don't want to just… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
At Second City and improvising at iO, you're creating a character in an instant. All of a sudden, you're creating this history… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
I think we're past the point in entertainment where you can have one thing and explode. If you have one thing, people… — Jaboukie Young-White Copy Share Image
“You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Coronavirus is constantly attacking society's vulnerable classes and spaces. We must shake off the fantasy that we can go back to the… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“When you put a log on the fire, the light and heat you see is, in a literal sense, the decades of… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or… — Chris Coppernoll Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and… — Kate Winslet 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
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
“It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
If you keep focusing on the bad things that have happened to you you're going to miss out on the good things… — SONYA PARKER Copy Share Image
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The past is the past for a reason, and that reason was to help make you who are now, and to help… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the… — David Frum Copy Share Image
You will have some people, who think you are are not a good actor because you are pretty. There will be people,… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
