Home » Past Past 1 We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. Victor Hugo Time, Past, Present Add to Collection 2 What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo Future, History, Past Add to Collection 3 The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr Past, Peaceful, Poor Add to Collection 4 Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson Life, College, Past Add to Collection 5 The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. Woodrow Wilson Respect, Past, Speak Add to Collection 6 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 Add to Collection 7 If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. William James Change, Future, Past Add to Collection 8 To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. Queen Elizabeth II Deep, Sympathy, Past Add to Collection 9 The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. Wendell Berry Good, Past, Escape Add to Collection 10 If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett History, Past, Game Add to Collection 11 I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Walt Whitman Art, Past, Democracy Add to Collection 12 Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. Arthur Schopenhauer Time, Law, Past Add to Collection 13 The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. Theodor Adorno Past, Always, Destroyed Add to Collection 14 He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Theodor Adorno Love, Past, Loved Add to Collection 15 You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. Oscar Wilde Past, People, Way Add to Collection 16 Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. Oscar Wilde Past, Literature, Present Add to Collection 17 One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. Oscar Wilde Man, Past, Rich Add to Collection 18 The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde Future, Past, Difference Add to Collection 19 They say miracles are past. William Shakespeare Past, Miracles, They Say Add to Collection 20 What is past is prologue. William Shakespeare Past Add to Collection 21 If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. Abraham Lincoln History, Past, Quiet Add to Collection 22 The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein Future, Past, Illusion Add to Collection 23 For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. Winston Churchill History, Myself, Past Add to Collection 24 If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill Future, Past, Lost Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »
