Bitterness Quote by John F. Kennedy

“here is one other element of the apocalyptic tradition to be considered, namely transition. I said a minute ago that one of the assumptions…

— Frank Kermode

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors…

— Winston Churchill

“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend that it…

— Shashi Tharoor

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy…

— Peter McWilliams

Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing…

— Epifanio de los Santos

Bitter people are like historians they cant forget the past.

— Missyrie

“The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem “The Second Coming” says, “Turning and turning…

— Joseph Campbell

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

— George Boas

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory…

— Edwin A. Abbott