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.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH
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EMANUEL UNGARO
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
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.
VIOLETTE LEDUC
I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS...
I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN
To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON
We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
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...
MAUREEN ORTH
Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
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.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET
Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde...
JAMES BALDWIN
In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
PAULO COELHO
Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hu...
JIMI HENDRIX
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo...
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.
MARTY RUBIN
It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
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...
BIL KEANE
aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities...
TONY CAMPOLO
Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us ...
TONY CAMPOLO
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
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.
GUILLERMO ALONSO
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, exc...
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 ...
HOPE MIRRLEES
Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in ...
WILLIAM WATSON
She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in ...
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
CLYDE DESOUZA
Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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I liked women as a shape to dress.
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I want always to be positive.
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I never fall down. I always fight.
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