Yesterday Quotes - Page 5

• To-day is the pupil of yesterday

  Publilius Syrus

  Pupils

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• A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thought Provoking, Get Up

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.135, Heinemann

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Littles, Today

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• For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Parenting, Bows And Arrows, Raising Children

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

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• You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Order, Remembrance, Mind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I”, p.90

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• Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream

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• Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Change, Today, Said

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• Today was tomorrow yesterday so don't inhale.

  Mel Blanc

  Today, Tomorrow, Inhale

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, School, Buddhism

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• Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Memories, Brain

  Fifth Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland, August 8, 1971.

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• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  Washington Irving

  Sports, Hero, Idols

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reason Why, Tomorrow, Weirdness

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

  Richey Edwards

  Regret, Tomorrow, Moments

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• God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

  Frederick Lenz

  Atlantis, Remember, Ancient

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• Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning, Weather, Storm

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• Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

  Adele Faber

  Memories, Alive, Today

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• Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Change, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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• Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

  Red Smith

  Games, Different, Today

  Red Smith (1983). “The Red Smith reader”, Vintage

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• Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

  Nina Berberova

  Reflection, Essence, Cities

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• I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Tired, Ideas

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• Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!

  Mary Lasswell

  Life, Hope, Children

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• I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.

  Simon Amstell

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Simon Amstell Overshares". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.

  Louise Closser Hale

  Spring, Bad Day, Being In Love

  Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”

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• There was a man.
  And it happened--as such things often so happen--that this man we went back into his days that were gone. Again and again and again he went back. Even as every man, even as you and I, so this man went back into his Yesterdays.

  Harold Bell Wright

  Book, Men, Gone

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