Past Quotes

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen
George du maurie - sick i am of idle words, past all reconciling,...
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
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
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
H. l. wayland - show us a man who never makes a mistake and we...
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert, Dune
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
John updike - critics are like pigs at the pastry cart....
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
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
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasgow
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
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.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Watley
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
Charles E. Jefferson
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. 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 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
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
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
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
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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 first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andr Maurois
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change