#past

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#affects #beyond #cautious #each #future

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#after #age #back #being #come

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#obliterate #past #present #those #try

I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future. ↗

— Emily Procter

#baby #future #genes #going #i

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback. ↗

— Alain Resnais

#flashback #past #present

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past. ↗

— Donna Rice

#apparently #because #been #continued #embellish

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. ↗

— Christopher Ricks

#community #courtesy #creates #does #language

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #past #life

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#been #biggest #changing #china #consumer

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#area #army #being #canada #departure