History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Never look to the past; for it's dead and gone. Never look for tomorrow; for it's not promised. Live for today. That's… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of… — Holland Cotter Copy Share Image
Remember that everyone you see and every situation you find yourself in has come from inside of you; you have created your… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I am not a video game guy at all. Once it got past Super Mario Bros. and past two buttons, they lost… — Edge Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The United States isn't a racist country. South Carolina isn't a racist state. And we've moved on from our nation's racist past. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past. — John Welch Copy Share Image
Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I think we're on a journey…It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Dear Daughter, Do more than enough to become better than you were in the past. Do not deprive yourself of a fruitful… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most people hold onto the past because they're looking for answers to questions that they'll never get the answers to. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you truly love someone, you dont judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
My past is my past. take me as I am, and not who I was. I promise to be the best you've… — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Over the past decade, I've been lucky to have witnessed and played a part in Manchester City's rise as a club and… — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image
A person that goes through a horrible, heartbreaking experience and still finds a reason to smile is the true definition of the… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda… — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
The future is unreachable, the past is gone. So live your life day by day, and let the moment carry you along. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When you continue to dwell on the past, there's no chance for a future. History repeats itself, thus, it's ok to LOOK… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past… — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].” quote by Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8d/alan-lightman-2270_cost_such-is-the-cost-of-immortality-no-perso_1378362.png)
