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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
I believe we're past the point where the government or the private sector can solve all problems, it's all about partnerships.
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.
Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.
And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.
Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much
The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.
I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.
Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.
Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.
Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.
Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.
My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.
Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?
Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.