Top 1200 Past And Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.

I don't see anything remotely like me in boxing, past or future.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. If Ladakh now succeeds in creating for itself a future which retains the foundations of its traditional past, it will be an inspiring example of how all the various elements of an ecological future fit together.

Everyone wants to look to the future and into the past. I stay focused on now.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

There's no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment.

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

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

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

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.

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

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

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

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

That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

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

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

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It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

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

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

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.