Past Quotes
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.
You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.Sir Winston Churchill
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.Anatole France
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.John Sladek
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.Sam Ervin
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.Gladys Tabe
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
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
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
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
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
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
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
Study the past if you would define the future.Confucius
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.Harry S Truman
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.Agathon
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
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.Herb Caen
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
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
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
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
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
