Come Quote by Tom Stoppard

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

— Kiran Desai

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

— Michael Laudrup

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 rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events…

— Rebecca Solnit

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

— Paloma Faith

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

— Hilary Mantel

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good…

— Peter Benchley

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

— Twyla Tharp

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

— Ken Kesey