Past Quotes
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
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
The past is but the past of a beginning.H. G. Wells
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.Agathon
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
Danger past, God forgotten.Scottish Prove
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
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".
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.Dan McKinnon
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.William Shakespeare
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.Russell Hoban
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
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.J. Michael Straczynski
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
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
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
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
Past and to come seem best things present worst.Mary Bertone
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
Study the past if you would define the future.Confucius
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.H. G. Wells
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
