Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.
How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...
Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.
Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.
Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.
In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles.
La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.
The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.
The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.
We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.
A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.
We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.
I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.