Future Past Quotes

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

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

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

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

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

We invent the past and remember the future.

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the 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 shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.