People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are.… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Coffee's in the cabinet over the sink. I won't take long." "Good. You want a cup?" "No, I'm good. I had some… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
