We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Live. And live well. Breathe. Breathe in and breathe deeply. Be present. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now.

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

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