Past And Present Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. — Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
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
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
My works are an imitation of my own past and present. — Barbara Hepworth
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
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
Unlike scandal-monger Ed Kleinâ€™s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halperâ€™s study is juicy and… — Lloyd Grove
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. — Kofi Annan
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

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