Operations Quote by Mary McCarthy

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

— Terry Eagleton

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

— Helen Dunmore

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

— Walter Benjamin

The present is burthened too much with the past.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The pure present is an unattainable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Anonymous

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

The present necessarily betrays the past.

— Mason Cooley

The past is what the present is doing now.

— Rowan Williams

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The present is the past biting into the future.

— Edwin Land

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

— Winston Churchill