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You can't clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.
— Desmond Tutu
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
— J. Frank Dobie
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
— Baruch Spinoza
I was making my mind as blank as possible, you see, since the past was so embarrassing and the future so terrifying.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Remember, the past need not become our future as well.
— Brandon Sanderson
- and Stella had that kind of face. One that looked permanently guilty, as if some form of mischief was in the recent past, the near future, or both.
— Stuart Neville
Blaming others when you were young for your past may be accurate, but as an adult you are responsible for your future.
— Marie Guillaume
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
— Elie Wiesel
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. — Paul Fussell
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
if you paid enough attention to your past, it would grow and grow, obscure your present as well as your future.
— Aline Ohanesian
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
— Eckhart Tolle
The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.
— Aliya Whiteley
As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.
— Cassandra Clare
William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.
— China Mieville
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
— Abraham Lincoln
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.
— Martin Van Creveld
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
— Alison Lurie
Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.
— Simon Sinek
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
— Michael Ignatieff
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
— Paul Dickson
As a mentor you have to learn how to tackle the past of your mentee, be able to put it to sleep and focus to the promising future of him/her.
— Euginia Herlihy
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.
— Max Tegmark
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
— Robert Penn Warren
The future is as dark, as unreal, as the past.
— John Gardner
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
— Douglas Coupland
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.
— Jonathan Larson
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
— Franz Grillparzer
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
— Siri Hustvedt
Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.
— Nelson DeMille
Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.
— Raymond E. Feist
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
— T. S. Eliot
The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future's shape, look to the past.
— John Pipkin
I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.
— Meredith Brooks
As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.
— Marcel Proust
I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.
— Gladys Hasty Carroll
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
— Terry Eagleton
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
— Peter Schoomaker
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
— Wayne W. Dyer
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
— Gianni Versace
It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that you could now have one without the other
— Alice McDermott
I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.
— Alice Hoffman
When you die to yourself, you have nothing from your past to use as clay out of which to shape your future.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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.
— Townes Van Zandt
As if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.
— Anthony Doerr
Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.
— Carol Tavris
The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
as any roulette player can tell you, past performance has no bearing on future random outcome. So
— Tim Dorsey
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.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
— Amin Maalouf
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
— Stephen Hawking
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
— Robert Penn Warren
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
— Martin Heidegger
Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.
— Anthony Liccione
As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future.
— Marcel Proust
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
— Frederick Douglass
From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.
— Titian
As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.
— Brian Klemmer
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
— Salman Rushdie
The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
— Jorge Luis Borges
When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
— Augusto Boal
I scrub the memory from my mind. There is no past. There is no future. Love, if that's what it is, is as short as it is eternal.
— Chloe Thurlow
there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.
— Henning Mankell
