Past Quotes
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.Arabian Prove
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.Robert Green Ingersoll
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.Miguel de Cervantes
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.Sam Ervin
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.Sophocles
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....Ursala Lequin
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who controls the past controls the future.George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.William Wordsworth
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
