Yesterday Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday.

  Dalai Lama

  Remember, Sometimes, Previous Life

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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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• Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

  Gene Simmons

  Expectations, Perception, Foundation

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

  Jonathan Swift

  Acknowledge You, World, Today

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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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• 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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• 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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• Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream

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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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• Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

  Patrick Murray

  Rest Of Your Life, Firsts

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• the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

  Gladys Taber

  Past, Octopus, Today

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• I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.

  Grandma Moses

  Years, Childhood, Littles

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

  Nora Ephron

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Ninety Nine, Sticks, Things You Like

  Source: movieweb.com

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• What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Today, Tomorrow, Knows

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Errors, Forever, Today

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.358, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Moving, Men, Light

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• I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wise, Wisdom, Pain

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• It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Years, Car

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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