Past Quotes - page 5

In the past, men created witches now they create mental patients. (Thomas Szasz)
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
An example is often a deceptive mirror, And the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, Is not always found written in things past. View quote
Pierre Corneille
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. View quote
Winston Churchill
One faces the future with one's past. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. View quote
René Descartes
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. (Anna Freud)
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. View quote
Penelope Lively
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. View quote
Penelope Lively
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
I don't want to live on past records. View quote
Barry Gibb
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. View quote
Graham Hancock
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. View quote
David Trimble
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. View quote
Albert Ellis
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. (Jane Smiley)
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. View quote
Amy Bloom
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. View quote
Eric Temple Bell