The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
The past cannot be cured.
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
