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The future is born, put the past in a casket
— Lil' Wayne
There's no future in stories ... Stories are things of the past, things for museums.
— David Mitchell
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
— Thomas Love Peacock
It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.
— Charles C. Mann
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
— Barbara De Angelis
In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
— Jennifer Doudna
Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.
— Martin Durkin
Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.
— Frank Herbert
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.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.
— Jeremy Hardy
Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.
— Susan Meissner
All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.
— Pierce Brown
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.
— P. J. O'Rourke
To remain in the past means to be dead.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.
— Anthony Burgess
No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past.
— Timothy Snyder
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
— Felix Adler
The past was nothing, a dream; it could not be touched or altered. It was, in his view, worthless.
— Arlene Hunt
If the past was what we were meant to see ... Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.
— R.v.m.
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.
— Andrei Codrescu
He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.
— Jonathan Renshaw
I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.
— Joseph McGinty Nichol
Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.
— Michelle Obama
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it ...
— P. J. O'Rourke
Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.
— Kristy Hinze
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.
— Peter Benchley
It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past.
— Alice McDermott
Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE
— Fela Durotoye
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be ...
— Eckhart Tolle
Don't look back, it has already past. Don't look forward, it has yet to happen. Live in the now, exactly where you're supposed to be.
— Rebecca Donovan
Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.
— Dennis E. Adonis
I exist only in the past.
— Wojciech Jaruzelski
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
— A.J.P. Taylor
The true measure of spiritual growth is not how much you've learned in the past year but how much you've grown in holiness.
— Mike Bullmore
There's a ghost of a dream that you don't even try to shake free off because you're too in love with the way she haunts you.
— Kamila Shamsie
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
— Malala Yousafzai
There's no sustenance in the past.
— Violette Leduc
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
— Robertson Davies
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
— Michael Bassey
I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment.
— Jillian Lauren
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
— Casey Stengel
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
— Dan Harris
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
— Jack Kornfield
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
— Wendell Berry
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
— Max Lerner
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
— Edward W. Said
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.
— Sarah Knowles Bolton
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
— Isaac Watts
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
— Richard Paul Evans
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
— Adrian Rogers
Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
— Nicholas Ostler
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
— J.G. Ballard
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.
— Jennifer Capriati
We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.
— Katharine Hayhoe
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
— Roberto Bolano
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
— George Eliot
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
— Vladimir Nabokov
In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody,
— Bob Lutz
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
— Jerome Hines
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
— Marie De France
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
It was funny, in a twisted sort of way, that night I gained my future was the same night I lost my past.
— Kelley R. Martin
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
— Tabitha King
