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
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.John Sladek
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.Sophocles, Trachiniae
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
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
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.Sir Winston Churchill
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 past is but the beginning of a beginning.H. G. Wells
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
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
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
The past is but the past of a beginning.H. G. Wells
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
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
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.William Ralph Inge
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.Israel Zangwill
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.Frederick Chiluba
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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".
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
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
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
Study the past if you would define the future.Confucius
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.Sir William Osle
