Past And Present Quotes
44 quotes by 43 authors
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
— Blaise Pascal
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The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or…
— Margaret Mead
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul…
— George Eliot
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History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal…
— Bill Nye
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in…
— Nadine Gordimer
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
— Barbara Hepworth
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You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it…
— Allen Ginsberg
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What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a…
— Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and…
— Lloyd Grove
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of…
— W G Sebald
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What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung…
— Emory Douglas
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The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status…
— Richard Rohr
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In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that…
— Ann Hood
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Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences…
— John Dewey
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Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
— Holbrook Jackson
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Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We…
— Chaim Weizmann
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I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
— Kofi Annan
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It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms…
— Jay Samit
Who Wrote These Past And Present Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 44 Past And Present Quotes, led by these top contributors: