Past Quotes
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
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
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
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
The future is the past returning through another gate.Arnold Glasgow
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
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
Study the past if you would define the future.Confucius
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
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
Past and to come seem best things present worst.Mary Bertone
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
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
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
You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke
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
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Harry S Truman
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
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
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
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
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.Maurice Masterlinck
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
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
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
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
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.Miguel de Cervantes
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
