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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.
Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.
All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.
When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.
We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.
I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.
A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.
While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.
There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.
Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.