Yesterday Quotes - Page 27

• But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

  Gayle Forman

  Romantic Love, Movie Love, Romance

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from May 03, 2017

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• As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Giving, Forever

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

  Andrea Gibson

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

  Howard Zinn

  Lying, Past, Government

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• After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

  Emily Dickinson

  Letting Go, Pain, Heart

  'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

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• I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m too outraged to speak. He’s lying. I know he’s the one I saw yesterday, would bet my life on it. “Alex. Nice to meet you.” Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake hands. Then he extends a hand to me. “Lena,” he says thoughtfully. “I’ve never heard that name before.

  Lauren Oliver

  Nice, Lying, Eye

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Unique, Perfect

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• I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.

  Kami Garcia

  Believe, Funeral, Mind

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  I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

  Steve Martin

  Today, Firsts, Turns

  Twitter post from Apr 4, 2012

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• 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.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Inspirational, Running, Time

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• I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were; they resist change. I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the economy or their boss. Sadly they fail to realize that they might be the problem. Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Struggle, Technology

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• Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Mindfulness, Tomorrow

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• Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself against the wall and press my forehead to my hands. It’s difficult to take deep breaths, so I take short, shallow ones. I can’t let this happen. They attacked me to make me feel weak. I can pretend they succeeded to protect myself, but I can’t let it become true.

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, Hands, Weak

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• You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

  Jonathan Swift

  Writing, Rejection, Today

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• Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

  George R. R. Martin

  Triumph, Trials, Tomorrow

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1119, Bantam

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• The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

  Sylvia Plath

  Skulls, Slime, Hollow

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.57, Anchor

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• Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

  Larry McMurtry

  Rivers, Gone, Dove

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

  William H. Gass

  Past, Thunderstorm, Discouraging

  "The Tunnel". Book by William H. Gass, www.drmardy.com. 1995.

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• Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Today, Facts, Steps

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

  Umberto Eco

  Names, Rose, Empty

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• My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Bird, Doubt

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

  Elie Wiesel

  Tomorrow, Silent

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

  Janet Frame

  Sea, Buried, Hatchet

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• Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Yesterday Is Gone, Each Day

  L Vardey, Mother Teresa (2011). “Meditations From A Simple Path”, p.46, Random House

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• I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

  David Levithan

  Pain, Thinking, Knowing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.23, Egmont UK

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