Past Quotes

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alexis charles henri clrel de tocqueville - nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an...
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
George orwell - he who controls the past commands the future. he...
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
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
Barbara de angelis - the more anger towards the past you carry in your...
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
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
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.
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
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 not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
George Steine
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
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
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
Leonard L. Levinson
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman
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.
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
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
Richard von Weizscke
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Sir Walter Scott
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley