Quotes 161 till 180 of 503.
-
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
-
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
-
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
-
If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
-
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
-
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
-
If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
-
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
-
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
-
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
-
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
-
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
-
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
On Heroes 5 -
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
-
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Pensees -
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
-
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
All past famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 9)
