#past

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

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#also #any #crazy #getting #i

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. ↗

— Anita Desai

#country #curious #history #how #india

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given. ↗

— Dennis C. Blair

#approved #carried #decisions #defend #fault

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take? ↗

— Robert Blake

#away #done #entire #future #going

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#believe #discontented #past #regrets #their