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As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.
Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.
To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.
The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.
It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]
That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
Sometimes I do it more literally, sometimes I do a little softer [interpretation], but I'm just inspired by the past.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.
Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.
It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.
It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.
The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.