Past Quotes

An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
John updike - critics are like pigs at the pastry cart....
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.
Fairfield Osborne
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Richard von weizscke - all of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or...
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
Sidney j. harris - a cynic is not merely one who reads bitter...
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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 future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Arabian Prove
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
Sir Winston Churchill
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Herb Brody
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
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
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
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S Truman
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Sir Winston Churchill
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
Harold J. Seymore
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt