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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
While you're busy chasing your dream, don't forget to leave time for living - it's way too easy to run straight past what's truly important.
People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.
Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one of our seasonal homes at this point.
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.
The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.
But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.
You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
Most politicians have to find a way past that allergy. They have to find a way to go door to door, person to person, or else they don't win.
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.
Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box.
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.
Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past... lead me here today.
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.
I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.
It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.