#past

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#schedule #tea #toast #past

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#approving #being #capable #disapproving #his

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#future #over #past #precedence #rather

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.' ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #beasts #best #blue #comparison

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#always #deny #i #live #page

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#away #difficult #far #far away #future

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#history #illuminates #interests #only #past

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#future #i #i believe #much #past

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. ↗

— Peter Davison

#past #poetry #prose #way #ways

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#built #congress #country #crunch #decades