Anton Chekhov Quotes, Past Quotes, Events Quotes

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Past Quotes , Reality Quotes

For you and I are past our dancing days.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Past Quotes

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Past Quotes

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

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In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Able Quotes

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Reality Quotes

The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Past Quotes , Punishment Quotes

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Past Quotes , Gone Quotes

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Care Quotes

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Real Quotes , Past Quotes

I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Past Quotes , One Day Quotes

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Moving Quotes , Past Quotes

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Past Quotes , Your Past Quotes

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Heart Quotes , Past Quotes

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Past Quotes

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Art Quotes , Past Quotes