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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer

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

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them. — Cassandra Clare

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

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. — Dave Pelzer

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 best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past. — Hugh Young

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

Sometimes, choices you've made in the past limit the choices you have today. — Bella Forrest

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past. — Rob Brezsny

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

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall. — David Lange

To remain in the past means to be dead. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first. — Drake

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

It's the past. Thoughts and dreams, hopes and hurts, all brewed together, fermenting slowly in the fusty air, unable ever to dissipate completely. — Kate Morton

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

Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in. — Sam Owen

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

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people ... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. — Ken Blanchard

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

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. — Morris West

Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today. — Truth Devour

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems. — Art Garfunkel

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

She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk — Paula Hawkins

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

Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present? — J.M. Coetzee

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

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past. — Debbie Ford

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

To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings. — Quentin Crisp

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. — Stan Musial

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

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better. — Robert Moss

There's no sustenance in the past. — Violette Leduc

Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast,
it's no good living in the fucking past. — Mark Jackman

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

Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future. — Lara Adrian

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

Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict. — John Berger

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

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. — Nick Park

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

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light. — Rob Lowe

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless. — Merle Shain

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes

A highly developed country of the past, in an advanced state of decay). — Shashi Tharoor

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.
Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.
It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past. — Toba Beta

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

Holding on to the past is like groping in the dark room when you have the opportunity to turn on the light. You only stumble, fall and hurt yourself. — Wogu Donald

What happened in the past can't be changed, but it can be a guide for what happens in your future. — Maria V. Snyder

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. — Nicola Sturgeon

No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ... — Amitav Ghosh

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed. — Benoit Mandelbrot