Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless..

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the hi….

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you..

You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?.

Without a past you can't have a future..

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? Sh….

So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, ….

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish..

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than th….

The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened..

You instinctively like what you can't do..

Failure is part of success..

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you vi….

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years..

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but on….

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past..

Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He….

Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the ….

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music..

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome..

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.