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Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
— George Eliot
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
— Heinrich Schliemann
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
— Peter L. Berger
We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.
— Linda Dillow
Our past is never too far away but always a constant reminder".
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time?
— Ari Berk
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We spend our whole lives running from our past, never realizing it's hitched to us - we can't ever outrun it.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment.
— John Zanetti
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
— Edward Young
So much of our future lies in preserving our past.
— Peter Westbrook
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
— Amber Valletta
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
— Moshe Safdie
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
— Aimee Bender
Hindsight is not 20-20. Not even close. Our view of the past, in fact, is hardly clearer than our view of the future.
— Ed Catmull
If the past was what we were meant to see ... Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.
— R.v.m.
When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer.
— Bryant McGill
Our future depends on how we understand the past.
— Gustavo Cerati
The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.
— Penelope Lively
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
— Djuna Barnes
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
if the past is any indicator of our future, today's big bets won't seem so wild in a few years' time.
— Eric Schmidt
We mistakenly believe that who we were is who we are, thus limiting our true potential in the present, based on the limitations of our past.
— Hal Elrod
We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past.
— Kate Morton
There are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility. And
— George Eliot
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
— Salman Rushdie
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life. — Pink Floyd
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life. — Pink Floyd
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
— Nelson A. Miles
How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?
— Kyo Maclear
The sun was a toddle insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past 8:30 and still light.
— John Green
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.
— Bob Harper
The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last
— Sabrina Carpenter
Our inability to talk about the past was almost as damaging to our relationship as the past itself.
— Leigh Byrne
And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.
— Peter Matthiessen
It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
— Katherine Marsh
Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.
— Archilochus
When we think we're at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.
— Beth Moore
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
— Jonathan Sacks
We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.
— Gordon Livingston
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
— James L. Farmer Jr.
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
— Blaise Pascal
I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
— John Irving
I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
— Jimi Hendrix
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
— Lawrence Lessig
We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe
— John Updike
Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.
— Rick Warren
If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.
— Jim Rohn
American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
— Jay Parini
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
— John Updike
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
— George Eliot
Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs for ever to the past.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.
— Beth Moore
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
— Swami Vivekananda
We must forget our past because our past was a life according to the thoughts of people and not God
— Sunday Adelaja
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
— Price Pritchett
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
Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
— Nicholas Ostler
We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.
— Katharine Hayhoe
Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook.
— Steve Inskeep
The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.
— Palle Oswald
God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past.
— Lee Strobel
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
— Samantha Harvey
You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.
— Rachel Caine
We cannot change anything in our past
— Sunday Adelaja
We were each other's only link to the past ... that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.
— Lisa Kleypas
Spreading rumours is our national past time
— Monica Ali
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
— Lauren Oliver
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
— David Rockefeller
Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros past
did and history have written their names in Gold — Ikechukwu Joseph
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Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.
— Amy Alznauer
However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.
— Tony Judt
We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment.
— David Levithan
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
— Michael Simkins