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He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. George Orwell Past 586
The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein Past 425
The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems. And remember, no one can get the jump on the future. Carl Sandburg Past 360
The past is a nice place to visit, but certainly not a good place to stay. Author Past 339
I dont fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future. Patti Smith Past 319
Nostalgia is a seductive liar. George W. Ball Past 167
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley Past 161
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? Walt Whitman Past 157
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. Cyril Connolly Past 151
The past is always tense the future perfect. Zadie Smith Past 141
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha Past 134
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. Friedrich Nietzsche Past 131
Forgiveness is a promise, not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sins against them. Author Past 129
Unfortunately the clock is ticking the hours are going by. The past increases the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing regrets mounting. Haruki Murakami Past 126
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass Past 118
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. W.H. Auden Past 117
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Oscar Wilde past 117
Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done. William Shakespeare Past 117
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr.Past 107
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. Ezra Pound Past 106
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Adrienne Rich Past 105
The past cant hurt you anymore not unless you let it. Alan Moore Past 104
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Cicero Past 104
Im 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past even the grimy parts of it well it just keeps on getting brighter all the time. Alan Moore Past 100
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth. John Burroughs Past 99
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Henri Bergson Past 99
I had my shortcomings – crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all. David Boreanaz Past 96
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. Source Unknown Past 96
Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look. James Burke Past 95
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein Past 95
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. Ivern Ball Past 93
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. Friedrich Nietzsche Past 93
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. Maxim Gorky Past 93
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells Past 92
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. Proverbs Past 92
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. Kenneth Auchincloss Past 90
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. Francois FeNelon Past 89
Look to the past for guidance into the future. Robert Jacob Goodkin Past 87
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it it remembers you. Sarah Dessen Past 87
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Anthony Kiedis Past 87
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. Arnold Bennett Past 86
To live meant feeding my former self to my current self. Cameron Conaway Past 84
We go to the past to lay the blame since the past cant argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. Glen Duncan Past 83
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. Russell Hoban Past 83
Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future. Tony Campolo Past 83
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. Ronald Reagan Past 83
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. William Penn Past 83
What is the past but what we choose to remember Amy Tan Past 83
... you met this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting thats still to come Dan Simmons Past 82
The past is a good place to visit, but not a great place to stay. Author Past 81

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