Quotes with past

Quotes 401 till 420 of 503.

  • Red Auerbach To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Charles J. Givens To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • Alan Cohen To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bo Bennett To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
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    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • André Gide To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Matthew Fox Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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  • Lewis Mumford Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Robert Smith True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Nye Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Billy Evans Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Charles J. Givens Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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