George W. Bush Quotes

The good old days are now.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

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

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

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

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.