Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

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

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

I didn't believe in reincarnation in my past life, and I still don't.

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

You have the same DNA as the greats of the past who started revivals.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

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