Yesterday Quotes - Page 21

• The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into the yesterday of the globe, far less touch the myriads of ages spread out beyond.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Years, History

  Hugh Miller (1857). “An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education”, p.441

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• It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Squares, Long

  Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). “Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister”

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• You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Law, History

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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• A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Ideas, Tomorrow

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• A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

  John F. Kennedy

  Easter, White, House

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.347, Best Books on

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• The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with fears and fears, and none of them are valid - because yesterday also you were full of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may have changed, but you are still alive. And man has an immense capacity to adjust himself in any situation.

  Rajneesh

  Jobs, Fear, Taken

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• Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Gratitude, Yesterday And Today

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• Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

  Joseph Story

  Party, Passion, Wish

  Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.303

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• People should just be aware of how they are eating... yesterday I had a McDonald's breakfast and pizza too - but that's bad.

  Peaches Geldof

  Funny, Mcdonalds, People

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• Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Men, Progress, Doe

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• Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

  Theodore Epp

  Life, Christian, Rose

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• That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

  Richard Baxter

  Light, Too Late, Use

  Richard Baxter (1837). “Now or never: the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, excited & directed ...”, p.5

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• If it's called THE USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?

  Stephen Colbert

  Usa, News, Today

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 4, 2008), 2005–2015.

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• The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

  Lawrence Ritter

  Baseball, Going For It, Today

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• Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

  Dwight Howard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

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• Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Thinking, Suffering, Today

  'Lied aus dem Spanischen'

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• You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

  Jerry Rubin

  Mistake, Thinking, Important

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• A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.

  Robert Scoble

  Technology, Glasses, Ipods

  Facebook post by Robert Scoble, www.facebook.com. May 3, 2013.

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• If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

  Robert Hewison

  Past, Creative, Risk

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• 'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Father, Cutting, Past

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• I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Would Be

  Ariwara no Narihira, “I Have Always Known”

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• What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Choices

  FaceBook post by H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche from Feb 26, 2013

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• The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

  Meister Eckhart

  Philosophical, World, Lasts

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.135, Grove Press

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• Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Thinking, Today

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