History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.

If you look back at past administrations, they`re probably a little bit behind where former President George W. Bush was.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.

I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

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