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“Yesterday, with you, is as close as today. But tomorrows without you, will always be far away.”
“Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.”
Source: The Philistine
“Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.”
Source: Just One Wish
“Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.”
Source: When God Whispers Your Name
“Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.”
“Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.”
Source: Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)
“Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.”
“Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times.”
“Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.”
“Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.”
“Yesterday's dust
determined
today's range of vision”
“Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.”
“Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.”
Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT
“Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.”
Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel
“Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.”
“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.”
“Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.”
“Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.”
“Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.”
“Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.”
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
“Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.”
“Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.”
“Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.”
Source: Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution
“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”
“Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.”
Source: Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
“Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there were high winds and Trump's hair nearly killed two people.”
“Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country.”
“Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off.”
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.”
“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”
Source: Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864
“Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.”
Source: Diary, 1928-1957
“Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.”
“Yesterday, I masturbated for 45 minutes... with salad tongs.”
“Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due to a high volume of calls" Well, you could put it that way - "Due to a high volume of calls". Or you could say, "Due to an insufficient number of employees..."”
“Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.”
Source: Delhi Is Not Far
“Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he's president that he'll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys network in Washington.' Now I'm not making this up. This is somebody who's been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he's the one who's gonna' to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that's called a staff meeting. Come, on!”
“Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.”
“Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey... We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".”
“YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'”
“Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new economic team. You know what he should do? Hire those people who were in charge of his fundraising campaign. We can pay this thing off in like a week.”
“Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein.”
“Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.”
“Yesterday, the country of Kosovo unveiled an 11-foot tall statue of former President Clinton. Yeah. That's right. The Clinton statue is so life-like, it's already been slapped 12 times.”
“Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'”
“Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.”
“Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".”