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The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. -- Jose Parla
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. -- Kofi Annan
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. -- Winston Churchill
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. -- David Mitchell
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music. -- Giuseppe Verdi
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight. -- Walt Disney
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim. -- Blaise Pascal
The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us. -- Glenda Jackson
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden. -- Allen Ginsberg
The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life. -- Michelle Malkin
[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . . -- Barbara Hepworth
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul -- August Strindberg
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present. -- Winona LaDuke
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia. -- Eric Hoffer
In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times. -- Gottfried Leibniz
There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied. -- Joseph Bruchac
Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it. -- Lea Michele
I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility. -- Jay Neugeboren
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. -- George Eliot
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. -- Frank Church
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. -- Bill Condon
My works are an imitation of my own past and present. -- Barbara Hepworth
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. -- George Carlin
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback. -- Alain Resnais
I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. -- Bill Kurtis
Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future. -- Matthew Fox
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past. -- David Bailey
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. -- Sidney Hook
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. -- Lauren Bacall
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. -- Anthony Kiedis
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -- Maya Angelou
We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing. -- Graham Nash
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. -- Denis Waitley
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. -- Vladimir Horowitz
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. -- Victor Hugo
I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future. -- Marisa Berenson
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous. -- Bruce Springsteen
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. -- Carlos Santana
Past happiness augments present wretchedness. -- Publilius Syrus
Past tears are present strength. -- George MacDonald
The present necessarily betrays the past. -- Mason Cooley
Time goes from present to past. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The past has to inform the present -- John Turturro
The past has to inform the present. -- John Turturro
Fuck the past. This was the present. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The past is pregnant with the present. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Every present anger derives from past weakness. -- Glen Duncan
An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present. -- Romany Malco
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Remembering the past gives power to the present. -- Fae Myenne Ng
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past. -- Ellen Gilchrist
Present has always been in comparison with past. -- Junaid e Mustafa
The past informs our present and our future. -- Todd Stocker
Forget the past and live the present hour. -- Sarah Knowles Bolton
The present is the key to the past. -- Archibald Geikie
The present is the key to the past -- Charles Lyell
The past is the father of the present. -- Agatha Christie
Theirs is the present who can praise the past. -- William Shenstone
The past does not define, you the present does. -- Jillian Michaels
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable -- Martin Amis
Accept the past; embrace the present; consider the future. -- Russell Eric Dobda
History is past politics, and politics is present history. -- Edward Augustus Freeman
A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future, -- John Corey Whaley
The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past. -- Andrew McMahon
Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh! -- Randy Savage
There exist continuation of time; past, present and future. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The present grows within the boundaries of the past. -- Simon Van Booy
The past is always a rebuke to the present. -- Robert Penn Warren
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future. -- Mary Engelbreit
The whole past is the procession of the present. -- Thomas Carlyle
Jesus never consults your past to determine your present. -- T. B. Joshua
The past has no power over the present moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
The present is burthened too much with the past. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present. -- Karl Marx
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. -- Bette Davis
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. -- Hippocrates
The past is what the present is doing now. -- Rowan Williams
The present is the past biting into the future. -- Edwin Land
Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. -- Akiane Kramarik
Why ruin the present by talking about the past? -- Victor Robert Lee
Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present. -- John Wooden
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. -- Friedrich Schiller
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future. -- Jess Conrad
The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom. -- Jane Austen
I've never really had a favorite player, past or present. -- Magnus Carlsen
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. -- Thomas Carlyle
The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present. -- Patrick Rothfuss
You have to know the past to understand the present. -- Carl Sagan
Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey -- Kharis Macey
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. -- Marcel Proust
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. -- Paul Scott
Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future. -- Dalai Lama
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime. -- Friedrich Schiller
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. -- Helen Dunmore
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present. -- Ramana Maharshi
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. -- Dan Brown
The past is always with us, for it feeds the present. -- Ruskin Bond
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past. -- Clint Eastwood
The future influences the present just as much as the past. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
You can only understand the present age when it is past. -- Han Suyin
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I write with my past, about the future, for the present -- Eyedea
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. -- Paul Fussell
To live in the past is to die in the present. -- Bill Belichick
...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present? -- Soren Kierkegaard
The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last -- Sabrina Carpenter
There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West. -- Edith Head
Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. -- Gottfried Leibniz
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. -- Abraham Lincoln
The past after all is only another name for someone else's present. -- David McCullough
Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present. -- Rajneesh
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. -- T. S. Eliot
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. -- James Joyce
The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles. -- Scott Frost
Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. -- Lebbeus Woods

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