Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

I'm very inspired by a lot of things from the past, from Cher to Diana Ross.

You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, 'uh-oh.'

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

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