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Past Present Quotes (page 11)

Jorge Luis Borges quote: "One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn."
One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn. Jorge Luis Borges
Cherrie Moraga quote: "Don't let the past steal your present."
Don't let the past steal your present. Cherrie Moraga
The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends. Deepak Chopra
Beryl Bainbridge quote: "The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia..."
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour Beryl Bainbridge
Thomas S. Monson quote: "Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present."
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present. Thomas S. Monson
... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future. Herman Hesse
Carl Sagan quote: "You have to know the past to understand the present."
You have to know the past to understand the present. Carl Sagan
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. Toni Morrison
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit. Upton Sinclair
Hippocrates quote: "Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future."
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. Hippocrates
That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a past where they can accumulate things and a future where they will accumulate still more. By the way, speaking of the present moment, do you masturbate a lot? Paulo Coelho
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories. George Eliot
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. L. M. Montgomery
We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...]My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the... Wallace Stegner
[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save of brief sleep which only wove retrospect and fear into a fantastic present, he felt the scenes of his earlier life coming between him and everything else, as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees. The successive events inward and outward were there... George Eliot

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