I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes

The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

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.
William Bernbach

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Louis Kahn

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Mick Jagger

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
Georgia O'Keeffe

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
Dean Koontz

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
Dean Koontz

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
Louis Farrakhan

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
Hank Aaron

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
Tyra Banks

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm

I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
Dan Quayle

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Dan Quayle