Yesterday Quotes - page 5

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences. (Nikola Tesla)
A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children. View quote
Karl Marx
The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation? View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow. View quote
Nicholas Negroponte
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. View quote
John Burroughs
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes. View quote
Marie Corelli
Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow. View quote
Megan McCafferty
Learning something new means you have to abandon, for a little while at least, the familiar and comforting. I happen to like this feeling. I remind myself that tomorrow, I will be someone who didn't exist yesterday. (Nick Stone)
To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform. View quote
Oscar Arias Sanchez
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too. View quote
Sophie Marceau
The best time is always yesterday. View quote
Tatyana Tolstaya
Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong? View quote
Holly Black
To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. View quote
Vanilla Ice
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes. View quote
Daniel Wallace
I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. View quote
David Levithan
Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there. (David Levithan)
Life is a perpetual yesterday for us. View quote
Alice Sebold
If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today. View quote
Michael Fox
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present. View quote
Alice Morse Earle
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. View quote
Alice Morse Earle