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Posterity will say as usual: In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
— Anton Chekhov
There's no future in stories ... Stories are things of the past, things for museums.
— David Mitchell
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
— David Rockefeller
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
— G. Stanley Hall
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
— Tavi Gevinson
Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past ... lead me here today.
— Lee Dong-wook
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
— Chris O'Dowd
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
— Brian Eno
I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.
— Jeremy Luke
Suddenly I felt that determination well up, which had helped me to accomplish things in the past, even when I was only six years old.
— Gisela Hausmann
Bitterness does not pay. Certain things have happened to all of us in the past and it is for us to forget those and to look to the future.
— Susan Williams
Robert had been thoughtless with his son in the past. It would be a long time of pain and care until things were right between them.
— Cassandra Clare
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
— Pierre Corneille
I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.
— Steven Soderbergh
The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.
— William Shakespeare
Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
— Lorrie Moore
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
— James Altucher
They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
— Suzanne Collins
I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea.
— Chris Onstad
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
— Ziggy Marley
There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.
— Harry S. Truman
Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.
— Colleen Hoover
Some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.
— Suzanne Young
We don't have to be identified by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret.
— Pittacus Lore
I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.
— Malcolm Morley
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
— Frank Underhill
Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
— Patrick Kane
There are times God puts things in our lives that remind us of the past, so that we know ... not all is as lost as we thought it was.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.
— Spencer Johnson
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
— Richard Dawkins
Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.
— Mario Puzo
I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless you in the endless future, amen.
— Jack Kerouac
Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present ...
— Jan Siegel
We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.
— Patti Davis
Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.
— Janet Gurtler
There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.
— Jeff Lemire
All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
— Marcus Aurelius
And as far as wishing goes, I save my wishes for things that can still come true. There's no point in wasting them on the past.
— G.A. McKevett
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
— Bell Hooks
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
— Deepak Chopra
No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
— Marie Kondo
I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Total freedom from your past; both the good and the bad things is the foundation for a successful life.
— Sunday Adelaja
I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.
— Angelina Jolie
When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to
— Lorraine Heath
You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?
— James Patterson
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
— Art Buchwald
Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE
— Fela Durotoye
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
— Max Lerner
If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
— Nadine Gordimer
You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.
— Paulette Goddard
I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
— Marge Piercy
There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.
— Ayn Rand
To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
— Shania Twain
You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past
— Roger Lewin
You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
— Sanford I. Weill
He told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
— Rick Warren
A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.
— Mollie King
Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.
— Emily Giffin