The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the key to unlocking the future is your ability to just leave the padlock of the past.” — Faithful Akpaloo Copy Share Image
All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
What I learned from my husband is to assume the best intentions of the people you're engaging with. We had to do… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I made lots of mistakes in the past , but if you judge me on what I did in the past ,… — Spido Copy Share Image
Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
“No one can escape their past. The sins we've committed... and the sadness we've caused... No matter how far we run, our… — Phoenix Wright Copy Share Image
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Mousa Dembele. He glides past players easily in training and in games. You know what he's going to do, but you can't… — Victor Wanyama Copy Share Image
I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I… — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image
What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you… — Tom Hicks Copy Share Image
I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties. — Nanette Lepore Copy Share Image
“Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but… — Richard Templar Copy Share Image
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
We don't know what's around the corner - and we must do everything to ensure we get our country's debts down, building… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal… — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger Copy Share Image
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing… — Allan Haines Loughead Copy Share Image
When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
“You don't live in the past; you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on… — Samuel L. Drew Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image