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  • Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

    Life   Baby   Time  
  • It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

    Past   Vision   Up To You  
    Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.80, Pan Macmillan
  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.
  • History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

    Past   People   History  
  • The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

    Past   Men   Taught  
    Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.184, e-artnow
  • What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.

  • The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

    Dream   Past   Cities  
    Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

    Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

  • Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

    Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen
  • It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

    Time   Memories   Past  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing
  • We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

    Life   Positive   Time  
    Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House
  • True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.
  • I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

    Time   Lost Love   Future  
    "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".
  • Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

    Past   Light   Justice  
  • With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press
  • Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  • My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

    Art   Past   Imitation  
  • What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a distracted, unshaped mass into spun beauty, passing the fine strands back and forth until we wove together something grander, not only music but memory, too-the particulars of past and present, stretched taut across a loom of timeless ideals. Harmony. Symmetry. Order.

    Memories   Past   Order  
    Andromeda Romano-Lax (2008). “The Spanish Bow”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.

    Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.201, St. Martin's Griffin
  • 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.

    Mean   Past   Composer  
  • The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

    Life   Inspiring   Wise  
    Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123
  • I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.

    Real   Past   People  
    Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org
  • To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

  • The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

    Future   Mean   Past  
    Blaise Pascal (1727). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects”, p.178
  • A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

  • I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

    Past   Texas   Two  
    Mary Lasswell (1958). “I'll take Texas”
  • Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present.

    Past   Blood   Drawing  
  • Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.

  • The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

    Fall   Past   Ego  
    "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life". Book by Richard Rohr, 2011.
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