I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.
Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
Isn't it time for you to free yourself from your past in order to enjoy the beauty of the present?
A negative past is only there to motivate you to start creating a future that's far better than it.
I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
