Famous Past Quotes - Famous Quotes about Past
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- William Ralph Inge
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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- Mark Twain
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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
- Juliette Binoche
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
- Carl Sandburg
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
- Herb Caen
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I've got my faults, but living in the past isn't one of them. There's no future in it.
- Sparky Anderson
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
- Maxim Gorky
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The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
- Margaret Bourke-White
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Things happen more frequently in the future than they do in the past.
- Booth Gardner
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
- Basil Bunting
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Unhappiness remembering happiness.
- Euripides
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
- John Cage
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
- Bob Hope
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Ronald Reagan
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