Quotes with past

Quotes 221 till 240 of 503.

  • Aaron Hill Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Plato Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Look back, and smile at perils past.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Al Stewart Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Brendon Urie Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Fulton Oursler Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
    Fulton Oursler
    American journalist, playwright and editor (1893 - 1952)
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  • Brad Feld Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Philip Roth Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
    The facts: a novelist's autobiography (1989)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Walter Benjamin Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bill Gates Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
    Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld magazine (October 2001)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Carly Fiorina Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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