Past Quotes

The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.
Israel Zangwill
Gerald r. ford - as i rejected amnesty, so i reject revenge. i ask...
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
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
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
A. bartlett giamatti, president of yale university - far better to think historically, to remember the...
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.
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
Tom wolfe,
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....
Ursala Lequin
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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 past is the tomorrow that got away.
Leonard L. Levinson
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
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
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Samuel Butle
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
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.
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
Harold J. Seymore
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Oswald Chambers
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.
Unknown
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