Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly..

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, writ….

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts..

Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no other landmar….

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficu….

But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man ne….

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way….

In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact….

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy..

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish ….

No one is content with his own lot..

My soul is not a palace of the past..

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past..

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds..

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee..

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us..

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems….

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made..