Past Quotes
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.Laurence J. Pete
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.
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.Gerald R. Ford
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
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
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.Michael Cibenko
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.Charles E. Jefferson
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
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
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
Look back, and smile on perils past.Sir Walter Scott
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Past and to come seem best things present worst.Mary Bertone
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.Harold J. Seymore
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
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
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.Sir Winston Churchill
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.Arabian Prove
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
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.Herb Caen
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
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.Sir William Osle
