Past Quotes
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".
The future is the past returning through another gate.Arnold Glasgow
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.Michael Cibenko
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.Frank Herbert, Dune
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.William Shakespeare
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Harry S Truman
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Study the past if you would define the future.Confucius
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.Bill Cosby
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.Sophocles, Trachiniae
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.Harry S Truman
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.H. G. Wells
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
