No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar WildeStudy the past, if you would divine the future.
ConfuciusMy connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.
Paulo CoelhoI have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan WattsThe past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Stephen HawkingI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas JeffersonFashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
Lana Del ReyThe philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
Richard P. FeynmanThey say miracles are past.
William ShakespeareOur Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
Fidel CastroIn the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
Joe BidenI’m very proud of the Rome episode of ‚No Reservations‘ because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You’re never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.
Anthony BourdainIf you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William JamesPeople are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
Alice MunroWell, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob DylanEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia WoolfOnce I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerTo all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth IILiterature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Oscar WildeI have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Dan QuayleThose who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
Pope FrancisWhat is past is prologue.
William ShakespeareLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus AureliusThe artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
Brian EnoYou learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Bob DylanThe three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.
Charles SpurgeonI desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George EliotThe good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
Paulo CoelhoMen who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
Marilyn MonroeI like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
Clint EastwoodTo state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. KennedySweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius CiceroPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston ChurchillOne’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeWhile I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald ReaganIt’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya AngelouThe Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.
The WeekndA great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin DisraeliLet me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back!
Dan QuayleI had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius CaesarWithout libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray BradburyI don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob DylanThe free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich NietzscheThe promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo MachiavelliYou do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
Wayne DyerMemories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten BoomThe age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles DickensAnywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
Muhammad AliReligion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.
Bill GatesIf I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.
Anthony BourdainThe only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar WildeYou tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.
Pope FrancisFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltEverywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas CarlyleI was adored once too.
William ShakespeareHistory is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy