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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.
The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.
Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!
I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.
In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.
I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.
I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.
Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.
A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.
For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?
Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.