Past Quotes
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.Arabian Prove
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
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.Laurence J. Pete
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
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
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
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
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
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
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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
I think we agree, the past is over.George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
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
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
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 only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
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
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.Mae West
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
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.Curt Simmons
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
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.James Barrett Scotty Reston
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
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
