Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.


Alice Munro

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Fuck the past. This was the present.
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"The past is always subject to the change that the present brings to the future.
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The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
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Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the pas...
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I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
GLEN COOK
You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatn...
JOHN STEINBECK
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contain...
T.S. ELIOT
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future
KAY LYONS
Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure ...
HEINZ FISCHER
The whole past is the procession of the present.
THOMAS CARLYLE
You can't correct the past evils, because you can't change the past. What you can do is learn from t...
JIM GENOVESE
Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then p...
ANDREW SOLOMON
You can’t go back and fix the past.”
“No. But you can make the present and the future a w...
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Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. Yo...
CARSTEN JENSEN
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
T.S. ELIOT
Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a fa...
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is ...
FEIST
The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
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Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought...
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
THOMAS CARLYLE
I cannot change the past but the present is my opportunity to change the future
TONY BRADY
What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We forgot about that a long time ago. The past is gone. We're more excited about the present and we ...
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Past Present And Future Exist All At Once As Parallel Moments In Time.
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He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember th...
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He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought...
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The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
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There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, b...
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No man in the past, present or future can manage time!! Every man in the past, present and future co...
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It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
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Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.
KEN POIROT
Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
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The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and ...
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pain is a definition of how people see me quite and alone wishing for things to change from my past ...
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of t...
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The past is the past but the present and the future is greater.
JANA K ALEXANDER
You can't change the past, so use your present time you got wisely to avoid regretting in future.
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Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...
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We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people ar...
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The only way to fix my past mistakes is to change my present behaviour.
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In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they ha...
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My past won't change my future, but my present can.
NISHAL MAHARAJ
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
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Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
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He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
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Time moves forward, people get old and change is inevitable. Live for now, the future and not in the...
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Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present...
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The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
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The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our arch...
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On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hat...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE
These tenses--past, present and future--are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. Tha...
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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KAGE BAKER
I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, ...
ELLEN GALLAGHER
In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things togethe...
ERNEST RENAN
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by co...
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The past was the past. The future will be the future. The present is the present. Let's keep it that...
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In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tens...
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Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ...
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Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
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The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experienc...
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Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To Geo...
RICHARD DREYFUSS
Invent a past for the present.
DANIEL STERN
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL
I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Most of your reactions are echoes from the past.
You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB
The museum would have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
GORDON HUETHER
I'd go back in time and change it. But I can't
TAYLOR SWIFT
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the pre...
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, ...
ALAN DUNDES
Nothing is but what is now
RON RASH
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F KENNEDY
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
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My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ...
ALICE BRAGA
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
ALICE BLOCH
Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am...
ALICE POTTER
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If every...
ALICE BRAGA
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
ALICE WALKER
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth...
ALICE KOLLER
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER
I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
ALICE MILLER
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye...
ALICE MEYNELL
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
ALICE JAMES
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
ALICE MEYNELL
Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because...
ALICE LOWE
We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE
These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE
I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE
We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE
Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE
We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE
Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE
The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER
,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER