Douglas Holtz-Eakin Quotes

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

We are tomorrow's past.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

The future lies ahead.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

I want to talk more about the future than the past.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

There ain't no future in the past.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.