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Past Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
- Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
- It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments'…
- The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven…
- Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
- I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
- For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has…
- I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
- It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.…
- In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach