Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day?

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

I appreciate the mistakes I made in the past cause it is shaping my future.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.

Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.

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