Past Quotes - page 6

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. (Eric Temple Bell)
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill and there they will remain forever. View quote
Daniel Webster
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. View quote
Fidel Castro
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. View quote
Demosthenes
The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins. View quote
Lin Carter
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. View quote
William James
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it. (Tennessee Williams)
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact. View quote
André Malraux
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. View quote
Sarah Brightman
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. View quote
Amos Oz
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. View quote
Norman Borlaug
For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and evn the past enjoy. View quote
Alexander Pope
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. View quote
W. H. Auden
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past - and when you're seventy, nearly all of you. View quote
Jean Anouilh