Top 1200 Past Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk about Palestine, it is never in the present, but either remembering a past or imagining a better future. Submitting gritty Middle Eastern politics to high production sci-fi in this manner not only underlines the absurdity of the situation, but brings about a dystopian future scenario.

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Anyone interested in the past, present, or future of banking and financial crises should read The Bankers' New Clothes. Admati and Hellwig provide a forceful and accessible analysis of the recent financial crisis and offer proposals to prevent future financial failures. While controversial, these proposals--whether you agree or disagree with them--will force you to think through the problems and solutions.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

"When we contemplate the duration of the universe, we see it limited to the present moment, which is nothing more but the point which separates two infinities of time. The past and the future are as meaningless as if they did not exist. Is anyone more misguided than the man who barters an eternal future for a moment which passes quicker than the blink of an eye?."

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

Create your future from your future not your past.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool's imagination. I don't think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don't think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

I don’t believe in god. There’s no proof he exists. In a world where there isn’t even proof of the future, the past exists. Even if it’s tainted with misunderstandings and delusions, if the people themselves believe in it, the past is the truth to them. And, if you base your actions or your life around it, in a way, it’s a type of god itself.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.