Past Future Quotes

#1. Every woman is a hallway full of locked doors under different names: past, future, hopes, fears, lust, and love. Some men come with keys. Some men come with lick picks. Byron St. James comes with a chainsaw.

Jessica Gadziala

#2. If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Simone Weil

#3. As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth.

Jan Porter

#4. The past/future can't be changed! The things which are written to happen, they
can't be skipped.

Deyth Banger

#5. Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.

Eckhart Tolle

#6. The past, future, or now, I'll find you - don't worry how. I have my ways, and one of these days. I'm gonna find you. I'm gonna find you.

Shani Petroff

#7. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Rebecca Solnit

#8. Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Augusto Boal

#9. May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

Jimi Hendrix

#10. Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

Marianne Williamson

#11. Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#12. Nix," I said, and her name was a poem. She tilted her face up to the dawn; my lips met hers. She pressed close to me, and then there was no past, no future - only now. No her, no me. Only us.

Heidi Heilig

#13. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Robert Kennedy

#14. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.

C.A. Woolf

#15. The past is kind enough to give you lessons. The present is kind enough to give you opportunities. The future is kind enough to give you both.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep

Tahir M Khan

#17. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#19. Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

Tryon Edwards

#20. The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.

Aliya Whiteley

#21. A nation that forgets its past has no future

Sir Winston Churchill

#22. This is remembered by everyone even today because, in our thinking, the past takes up more space than the future.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#23. Tomorrow's past is yesterday's future and is presently undetermined.

Calvin W. Allison

#24. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#25. This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.

Joseph Conrad

#26. Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

Jay-Z

#27. The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!

Spencer Johnson

#28. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Ba Jin

#29. History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#31. Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

Frederic Martel?

#32. When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.

Rick Warren

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

Hunter S. Thompson

#34. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

#35. I will make wherever I am my home. Or I'll have no home at all. Either is better than living in a past and future where I don't belong

Kiersten White

#36. There's something backward about living in a place so obsessed with the past; it's like everyone's given up on the idea of a future.

Lauren Oliver

#37. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Van Jones

#38. The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

J. Frank Dobie

#39. The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

#40. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.

Sloan Wilson

#41. I hate all these crazy verbs, using a subjunctive to get what's happened in the future and the past mixed up.

Kerstin Gier

#42. He knew her, and she knew him. He had no idea if the images he saw came from past or future, or both, but he knew her. Their souls were bound, had always been bound, and always would be. They were two with one soul between them, perfectly joined, perfectly fitted.

Ann Marston

#43. A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Bernard Crick

#44. We don't let the past determine the future unless we allow it too.

Drew Pinsky

#45. You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

Rick Remender

#46. It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Wendell Berry

#47. You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only the present.

Paulo Coelho

#48. A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

Bruce Barton

#49. Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined.

Alan Lightman

#50. We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future!

Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society

#51. Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Anne Michaels

#52. How does one know that, before the first hello? It's a heaviness in the air combined with a lightness of step. It's a slowing down of the past, and a speeding up of the future.

Melanie Benjamin

#53. I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I could feel. About the present, it was better to be stoical; about the future - such a future as mine - to be dead.

Charlotte Bronte

#54. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.

Kevin Hancock

#56. If there isn't now, there isn't past, if there isn't past there isn't future... What if everything has happen in one day but in different periods???
Can I say this??

Deyth Banger

#57. In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

#58. The future has a lot to do with the past.

Dwight Yoakam

#59. In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Jo Coudert

#60. It's what we do in our future, that decides how important our past truly was.

Mona Hodgson

#61. Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Matteo Renzi

#62. We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

Adam Johnson

#64. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

#65. Live for the present, as the past has gone and the future as yet to arrive.

LadyTiara

#66. When you die to yourself, you have nothing from your past to use as clay out of which to shape your future.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#67. You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path ... a better path ... His path.

Billy Graham

#68. The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!

Maddy Malhotra

#69. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Harry Browne

#70. He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.

Marcus Aurelius

#71. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.

Kami Garcia

#72. a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility. And

George Eliot

#73. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

James Joyce

#74. Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can't let go of the past.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#75. The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.

Hans Reichenbach

#76. As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.

Deepak Chopra

#77. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.

Jane Roberts

#78. Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest ...

Charles A. Lindbergh

#79. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

#80. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Robert M. Pirsig

#81. Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

W. Timothy Garvey

#82. Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

Katharine Whitehorn

#83. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

Bill Crawford

#84. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

Frederick Douglass

#85. As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future.

Marcel Proust

#86. The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#87. There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Laini Taylor

#88. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

John Cusack

#89. Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

Ben Bernanke

#90. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Turner

#91. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Frank Herbert

#92. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Carlos Slim

#93. No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

Octavia Butler

#94. Most of the media ... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Carly Fiorina

#95. Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

Andre Breton

#96. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

#97. Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

Charles Spurgeon

#98. Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Deepak Chopra

#99. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.

Roshan Sharma

#100. The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Tim O'Reilly