I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
Gianni Versace
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The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
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EMANUEL UNGARO When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
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YVONNE CRAIG Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
ANTHONY KIEDIS I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
DAN QUAYLE Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.
MARIANA FULGER All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past.
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GARY F EVANS... I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
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GARY F EVANS... When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... I believe ... that Andrew Cunanan did have the acquaintance of Gianni Versace, ... I don't believe t...
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TONY CAMPOLO There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
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DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
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PAULO COELHO Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
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GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
STEVE NASH Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point li...
VERA NAZARIAN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
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MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present...
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FREDERICK DOUGLAS Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
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JULIA WARD HOWE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op...
RAQUEL CEPEDA We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.
KEN POIROT Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should ...
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KEN ROBINSON I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more...
EDWARD SAPIR Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
YOGI BERRA When you come to the fork in the road, take it
YOGI BERRA I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
WARREN CUCCURULLO I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
AIDAN QUINN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
MURRAY WALKER I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
MARTY RUBIN These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
CONNILYN COSSETTE Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has dec...
SHERRY THOMAS The greatest mystery of all: tomorrow.
MARTY RUBIN History...becomes present, if we can see the past with Augmented Reality
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GARY F EVANS... Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in y...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN dont let the old break you; let the love make you
BERTRAND RUSSELL Long after the poor departed have gone from our hearts, their insignificant dust continues to be min...
MARCEL PROUST Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
TONI MORRISON My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.
VERONICA ROTH We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.
SOPHOCLES The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
GEORGE MACDONALD Life's irony;When a lady meets her future spouse,what comes to her naughty mind is this,"the way he ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Your future is guided by the knowledge gleaned from the past.
JAIME CONTRERAS The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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