Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

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