Mark Hoppus Quotes

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The only danger of knowing and thinking a lot about history, is that you will trip on something behind you. Be sure you also look ahead.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

The past is never where you think you left it.