Future Past Quotes

The future is always here in the past

And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

The present is the past biting into the future.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

What is now in the past was once in the future

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

The past, the future: - two eternities!

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

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

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

You have to let go of the past to have a better future, and you do that through love and family.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

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

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.

My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.