Past Quotes
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
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
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.Samuel Butle
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
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".
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
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
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
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.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
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
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.H. G. Wells
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.Mark White
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.Miguel de Cervantes
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.Sir Winston Churchill
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.Gerald Jampolsky
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.Curt Simmons
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".
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.Sir William Osle
