If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.

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