With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 10
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. Samuel Butler British Poet More Samuel Butler Quotes 8
The future influences the present just as much as the past. Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher More Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes 5
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy American President More John F. Kennedy Quotes 4
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. LaToya Jackson American Musician More LaToya Jackson Quotes 3
The past is never dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 3
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. Franklin D. Roosevelt American President More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes 3
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Simone Weil French Philosopher More Simone Weil Quotes 3
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. J. Michael Straczynski American Producer More J. Michael Straczynski Quotes 2
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. Bob Dylan American Musician More Bob Dylan Quotes 2
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Corrie Ten Boom Dutch Celebrity More Corrie Ten Boom Quotes 2
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Blaise Pascal French Philosopher More Blaise Pascal Quotes 1
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. John Acton English Historian More John Acton Quotes 1
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. Jennifer Capriati American Athlete More Jennifer Capriati Quotes 1
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein German Physicist More Albert Einstein Quotes 1
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana American Philosopher More George Santayana Quotes 1
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go. Fred Rogers American Celebrity More Fred Rogers Quotes 1
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Adrienne Rich American Poet More Adrienne Rich Quotes 1
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey English Critic More Lytton Strachey Quotes 1
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. Tom Wolfe American Journalist More Tom Wolfe Quotes 1
You cannot survive if you do not know the past. Oriana Fallaci Italian Journalist More Oriana Fallaci Quotes 1
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 view the past that brought you to here as not very good. Story Musgrave American Astronaut More Story Musgrave Quotes 1
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. Gunther Schuller American Composer More Gunther Schuller Quotes 1