The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
“The past, present, and future; the young, middle-aged, and old; and the maiden, mother, and crone in one. Good times. I” — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
Because of the people in the past who supported me, I feel I have a responsibility to give back and help others. — Andre Onana Copy Share Image
This is only going to add fuel to the fire that I'm gay. I don't really care. I'm so past the point… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over:… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the… — Homer Copy Share Image
In the past, if I was in the middle of a situation involving my personal life, I was always keeping it to… — Alberto Del Rio Copy Share Image
When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When we have had in the past programs that have said that the people who come here illegally are going to get… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“the present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Peterborough brought me in to do a job for them, which was to score goals. In the past they brought in strikers… — Ivan Toney Copy Share Image
With drumming, I've done so many hours on stage in past bands and have been playing in bands for my whole life… — G Flip Copy Share Image
Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I've been to the Grammy's several times for my past nominations and it has always a fun experience. — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
The worst part of meeting someone new is the time it takes for you to form a bond with that person. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
The past dont haunt me I haunt the past I guess because its easy to go back to better times then to… — X JVale Copy Share Image
If you want to be in my future, do the effort to be a part of my present, or all you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know that you're learning from the past if you're productive on the present and you're seeing yourself successful in the near… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now. — James Clavell Copy Share Image
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
