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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright
You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Somehow you've come past the realm of just knowing about this Person called Jesus Christ and He is real to you.
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.
For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.
You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.
...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.
There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.
Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.
During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.
I haven't promised anything for the future. Instead, I have said what I would have done differently in the past.
Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.