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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.
By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. Why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? It's not like in the past.
You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.
There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.
At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".