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Past Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that…
- We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.
- Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot…
- The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't…
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past…
- Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
- We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney,…
- We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out…
- All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
- The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization…
- ...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always…
- Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
More Past Quotes
- 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