T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The past is pregnant with the present.”
“The past is prologue.”
“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
Source: A Matter of Time
“The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player”
“The past is retrievable, yes, but it most certainly cannot be changed.”
Source: Twist
“The past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.”
“The past is so far away, but it flickers,
then cleaves the night. The bones
of the past splinter between our teeth.
This is our life, love. Why did I think
it would be anything less than too much
of everything?”
“The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.”
Source: Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
“The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.”
“The past is solid, the future is liquid.”
“The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.”
“The past is something that can not be fixed, but sets an example to fix the present to better the future.”
“The past is still living in the present but only as a memory. Somehow memories sustain themselves for when all else dies, memories come out as the survivors.They are the legacies of yesterday...”
“The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.”
“The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.”
“The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.”
“The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.”
“The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“The past is such a curious creature,
To look her in the face
A transport may reward us,
Or a disgrace.
Unarmed if any meet her,
I charge them, fly !
Her rusty ammunition
Might yet reply !”
“The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.”
“The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”
“The past is the best way to suppose what may come.”
“The Past is the Childhood of the Present.”
“The past is the father of the present.”
Source: Hallowe'en party
“The past is the luxury of proprietors.”
“The past is the occupational realm of historians—their daily work—and scholars have debated what their stance toward these social issues should be. As citizens and professionals, historians may naturally form a desire, as Carl Becker puts it, “to do work in the world.” That is, they might aspire to write history that is not only of scholarly value but also has a salutary impact in society. Becker defines the appropriate impact and the historian’s proper role as “correcting and rationalizing for common use Mr. Everyman’s mythological adaption of what actually happened.”
That process is never simple, however, when the subject involves divisions so deep that they led to civil wars. One issue that inevitably leads to controversy is the extent to which history involves moral judgment. Another is the power of myths, exerting their influence on society and acting in opposition to the findings of historical research [190—91].”
Source: Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir
“The past is the past for a reason, if it were meant to be the future it surely would not be the past”
“The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.”
Source: The Coming Storm
“The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now.”
“The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.”
“The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.”
Source: Now And Then
“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.”
Source: More Stately Mansions
“The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't mean that we're fascinated by the dead or that we're fascinated by things that are settled. It is just one place where we can go to understand ourselves in the present.”
“The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.”
“The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.”
Source: White Jacket
“The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.”
Source: White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war
“The past is there to teach you. The present is for you to be present and the future is the sum result of how you handled the past and the present.”
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead; we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.”
“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.”
“The past is Unbelievable, when you think you figure Everything out, It leads to the future.”
Source: Blood Bonding: Protector and Secrets
“The past is useless. That explains why it is past.”
Source: Cause for Wonder
“The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.”
Source: Nova
“The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.”
“The past is what nourishes and sustains us. It is like going to work on a good breakfast.”
Source: The Testament of Sophie Dawes: The Queen of Chantilly and a Scandal at the Heart of Victorian Society
“The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.”