The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past..

The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted….

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past,….

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition..

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post f….

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be ove….

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them..

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizi….

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest..

We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not on….

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will..

Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self re….

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose ….

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..