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In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

Margaret J. Wheatley
In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Marina Abramovic
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Margaret Bourke - White
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

John Acton
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my...

Kendall Jenner
When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would...

Palmer Luckey
In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Hal Boyle
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which...

Julian Barnes Flaubert's...
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world's barbarism. I don't say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn't notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be.

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have...

Howard Pyle The Story of the...

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare The Tempest

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Salman Rushdie Imaginary...

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

Amy Tan The Bonesetter's...

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

Amy Tan The Bonesetter's...

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Anne Lamott Help Thanks Wow:...

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike...

Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian,...

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Zelda

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

Stephen King Rose Madder

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose

The past was like those old -fashioned fragrance cushions filled with herbs and flowers, the aroma of which penetrates the clothes and sticks to them.

Anais Nin Collages

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

Haruki Murakami 1Q84

But thing in the past are like plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?

Haruki Murakami Kafka on the...

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

Tad Williams Stone of...

They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even...

Milan Kundera The Book of...

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.

C.G. Jung The Tibetan Book...

I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed only of...

Margaret Atwood The Blind...

I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into...

Rodman Philbrick The Mostly True...

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

Ben Elton Blast from the...

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

Ruth Reichl Delicious!
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