Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

I was adored once too.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

We 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.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Let 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!

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

If 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.

Each 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.

Religion 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.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Everywhere 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.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Anywhere 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.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

People 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.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

They say miracles are past.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I 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.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

My 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.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The 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.

You 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.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

To 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.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Literature 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.

You 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.

History 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.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

To 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.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

A 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.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.