Past Quotes - page 2

You can never plan the future by the past. (Edmund Burke)
I've always been more interested in the future than in the past. View quote
Grace Hopper
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. View quote
George Eliot
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. View quote
Heath Ledger
I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future. View quote
Dan Quayle
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience. View quote
George Washington
The one charm of the past is that it is the past. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. View quote
William Faulkner
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. View quote
Robertson Davies
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)
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself. View quote
Tove Jansson
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. View quote
George Eliot
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. View quote
George Carlin
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The past is a bucket of ashes. View quote
Carl Sandburg
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils But present evils triumph over it. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. View quote
Knut Hamsun
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