Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Robert Browning
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
In this great future, you canÃt forget your past
Bob Marley
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess
James Thurber
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
John Ruskin
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.
King Hussein
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.
Ian Wilson
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche