William Butler Yeats Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Past Quotes

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

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

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

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To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Fall Quotes , Past Quotes

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

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Reality Quotes

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Past Quotes

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

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Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Past Quotes , Dawn Quotes

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Future Quotes , Past Quotes

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Past Quotes , Times Past Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Past Quotes , Historical Quotes

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Past Quotes , Important Quotes

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes