I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. Votes: 2
Kofi AnnanIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Votes: 2
Winston ChurchillI think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. Votes: 1
Bill KurtisPersonally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Votes: 1
Anthony KiedisMy future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. Votes: 1
Vladimir HorowitzArrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerChildren have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present. Votes: 0
John Greenleaf WhittierInstead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantUnlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. Votes: 0
Lebbeus WoodsDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. Votes: 0
HippocratesThe glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present. Votes: 0
Margaret MacMillanThe past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed. Votes: 0
Anthony LiccioneAll moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutThe experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. Votes: 0
Michael Eric DysonHistorians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Votes: 0
Edmond de GoncourtThere is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. Votes: 0
Eugene O'NeillHer mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThe Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past. Votes: 0
Holland CotterWe can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. Votes: 0
John D. BarrowWith best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future. Votes: 0
John R. Dallas Jr.The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. Votes: 0
Guy de MaupassantWith best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future. Votes: 0
John R Dallas JrThe future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerChildren enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereYou can't really live in the past because the present is always present. Votes: 0
John Benjamin HickeyAll nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable. Votes: 0
Paul ValeryThe present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. Votes: 0
Mokokoma MokhonoanaThe past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. Votes: 0
Elif SafakThe meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIn the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. Votes: 0
Margaret MeadHe who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. Votes: 0
Francisco de QuevedoFrom your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. Votes: 0
Muhammad IqbalChristmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. Votes: 0
Phyllis DillerPhilosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist. Votes: 0
NostradamusThrough it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. Votes: 0
Charlotte Perkins GilmanYour accomplishments in the past and present has a link to your future success. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThere is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriEverything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpIt's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present. Votes: 0
Jonathan MaberryHave no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present. Votes: 0
H. E DaveyThe distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinProcrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaLast Christmas someone stole my present. I've spent this year living in the past. Votes: 0
Terry AldertonIt seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past. Votes: 0
Adora SvitakIn the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellUnless you can change the past, youâre wasting the present on this guilt Votes: 0
Christopher MooreWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Votes: 0
George OrwellThe present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaDwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present. Votes: 0
Wayne Gerard TrotmanIn time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonRegrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. Votes: 0
Federico FelliniFocus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10% Votes: 0
Masaaki HatsumiPeople must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future; Votes: 0
Nellie L. McClungI live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWithin this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThe past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION. Votes: 0
Zig ZiglarRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future Votes: 0
Maxim GorkyI don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamEach and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads. Votes: 0
Momofuku AndoI can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantAppeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. Votes: 0
Edward SaidYanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. Votes: 0
Randy AlcornGreat has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future. Votes: 0
Gordon B. HinckleyKnowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities. Votes: 0
Buzz AldrinThe only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadTo the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleIt's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Votes: 0
Charles DickensThe BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. Votes: 0
Anthony MinghellaEveryone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance. Votes: 0
Italo SvevoIn circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. Votes: 0
Louis-Ferdinand CelineTo envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory Votes: 0
Jeremy AldanaThe future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. Votes: 0
Geoffrey EltonPhotography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Votes: 0
Berenice AbbottJesus heals your PAST, is your very PRESENT help and takes care of your FUTURE. Votes: 0
Joseph PrinceWhen people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettThe challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. Votes: 0
David P. ThelenThe present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. Votes: 0
Kiran DesaiPhilosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future. Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiEverything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present. Votes: 0
Geshe Kelsang GyatsoWe can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThe present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past. Votes: 0
MartialI allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. Votes: 0
Ann BrasharesHow real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible... Votes: 0
William GaddisChildren have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereAccountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. Votes: 0
Paul OrfaleaA good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciThe past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present. Votes: 0
James FreyFace the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude. Votes: 0
Frank HallApothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. Votes: 0
Tryon EdwardsAmong the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. Votes: 0
Kurt Vonnegut...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? Votes: 0
Margaret Peterson HaddixThe disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacLet the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsIf the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillThe more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be... Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleThe present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. Votes: 0
Zora Neale HurstonThe stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThe only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraWho wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past. Votes: 0
Roger EbertAll the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauYou can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use. Votes: 0
Robert KiyosakiHave not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part? Votes: 0
Lord ByronYour past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus. Votes: 0
Rick WarrenYou can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. Votes: 0
Isak DinesenMy fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. Votes: 0
Sara SheridanI learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future. Votes: 0
Lena Karynn TeslaToo often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present. Votes: 0
Thomas SowellOnly Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present. Votes: 0
Calvin W. AllisonI always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. Votes: 0
Fernando PessoaThe past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThe Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future, Votes: 0
John SentamuThe past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. Votes: 0
Frederick BuechnerMan spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. Votes: 0
Antoine RivarolThe present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future. Votes: 0
Ziggy MarleyThe Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future. Votes: 0
John SentamuDon't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. Votes: 0
Mark TwainKuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future. Votes: 0
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-SabahWe should kill the future, so the present has no choice but to retreat into the past. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzMind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. Votes: 0
RajneeshThere is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Votes: 0
Will DurantOur past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. Votes: 0
Sylvia EarleArchitecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. Votes: 0
Richard RogersWhy doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisLet the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on. Votes: 0
VikrmnArt is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning. Votes: 0
Robert WarrenI am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future. Votes: 0
Mariko MoriMemory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreIt's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoWe are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future. Votes: 0
A.J. DarkholmeTo be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present. Votes: 0
Wayne Dyerdont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side Votes: 0
karinush2828If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future? Votes: 0
Truman CapoteI like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present. Votes: 0
Ruth RendellPast is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinA life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past. Votes: 0
Tucker ElliotThe future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. Votes: 0
George CrumbThe heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. Votes: 0
RajneeshBecause I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present". Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoThere is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past. Votes: 0
Emma LazarusWe must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonOmg! To the past.Omg! To the present. Omg! To the future. It's life. Don't give up! Votes: 0
Touaxia VangThe present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been. Votes: 0
Cassius Jackson KeyserDon't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. Votes: 0
Taylor CaldwellNothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment. Votes: 0
Louise HayFor he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeMaybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present. Votes: 0
Ken LoachThe present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollDon't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. Votes: 0
Kid CudiFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltThe truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does Votes: 0
Maya AngelouPosterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovI adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future. Votes: 0
Anton WalbrookYou cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleChildren have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereThe only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukThinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. Votes: 0
Billy CorganThe delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierThe promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliJoy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. Votes: 0
George EliotWe do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonThe unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardThe present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. Votes: 0
Emmuska OrczyI am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. Votes: 0
Steve MaraboliLive in the present as if the future is going to become the past that you have changed. Votes: 0
Philip K. JasonIn December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present. Votes: 0
Carolyn WellsThe present no matter what I brought couldnât change the past. The Past was set and sealed. Votes: 0
Ann BrasharesHappiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present. Votes: 0
Manoj AroraI find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. Votes: 0
Helen KellerAll our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. Votes: 0
Konstantin TsiolkovskyLove is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. Votes: 0
Ann LandersHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. Votes: 0
Aidan ChambersWe praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give. Votes: 0
OvidIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Votes: 0
Winston S. ChurchillMemory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaPast and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusHindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind. Votes: 0
Ben GalleyWe live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. Votes: 0
Chiang Kai-shekOne cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Votes: 0
Golda MeirPeople from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future. Votes: 0
Anthony LiccioneOne could only learn from the past and move on through the present to make a better future. Votes: 0
Jason MedinaIf you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present. Votes: 0
Malachy McCourtYou can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukTrust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineIn art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoThe history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. Votes: 0
Ernest DimnetTo the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollI met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing. Votes: 0
Jennifer ElisabethI don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past. Votes: 0
Paloma FaithWhatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power. Votes: 0
Oprah WinfreyWe always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. Votes: 0
Marina AbramovicDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Votes: 0
BuddhaShall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneNowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present Votes: 0
Chogyam TrungpaThe past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. Votes: 0
Jared DiamondIt is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future. Votes: 0
Midge CostanzaLet the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be. Votes: 0
R.J. ElloryNever let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present. Votes: 0
AnonymousI would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable Votes: 0
Peter AckroydThe future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesWhen you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. Votes: 0
Dan HarrisThe ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past. Votes: 0
Jacob BraudeDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaHave compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now. Votes: 0
Matthew DonnellyThe past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigThe failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future. Votes: 0
Gordon B. HinckleyTo live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future. Votes: 0
Todd StockerYou may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. Votes: 0
David KlassWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassThe present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future Votes: 0
Ayi Kwei ArmahIf you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present. Votes: 0
Fausto CercignaniI'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present. Votes: 0
Melanie FionaLife only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once. Votes: 0
Isaac MarionI like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. Votes: 0
Rachel CarsonYou owe it to your inner-self to never allow your past to take the place of your present or future. Votes: 0
Edmond MbiakaFor the people whose minds are in the past, even a heavy rain cannot bring them to the present time! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present Votes: 0
Andy AndrewsI saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore. Votes: 0
Edna St. Vincent MillayFrom the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future. Votes: 0
TitianLet's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future. Votes: 0
Young JeezyI live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. Votes: 0
Juliette BinocheThe only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonIf we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be. Votes: 0
T.F. HodgeIf we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present. Votes: 0
Debbie FordWe think weâre in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. Votes: 0
Ken KeseyHe ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present. Votes: 0
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