Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

Don't regret your past...It has shaped you. Don't fear your future...It is yours to shape.

No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past!

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

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