Past Quotes
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.Jim Bishop
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
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
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
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.Harry S Truman
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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
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
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.Samuel Butle
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.Harold J. Seymore
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
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
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Andr Gide
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.Virginia Woolf
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
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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
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
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.Dan Cruickshank
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.Curt Simmons
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
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
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
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
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
