Past And Present Quotes - Page 2

• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

  Domenico Cieri

  Letting Go, Past, Criminal Mind

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• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Time, Memories, Future

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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  Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Future, Past

  Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

  Dean Acheson

  Future, Live In The Moment, One Day

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• When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart

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• I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

  David Gerrold

  Love, Dream, Memories

  David Gerrold (2014). “A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

  Jean Cocteau

  What Matters, Past Present Future, Earth

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Wisdom, Future

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Memories, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Charm, Past Present Future

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Past, Rushing

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• Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

  Walt Disney

  Eye, Past, Color

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Past, Ends

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• Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Past, Television

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Eye, Past

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• I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Past, Lasts, Saws

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.117, eBookIt.com

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• History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

  Bill Nye

  Past, People, History

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• The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Jobs, Powerful, Reality

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• True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

  James McCosh

  Christian, Humility, Past

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.

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• The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals.

  Saul Alinsky

  Past, People, Labels

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