Past Quotes

This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

You cannot dwell on the past. You have to focus on the future.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge [COVID-19 pandemic]. And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any. That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country. The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

We do not regret this, we simply state the fact and know that we need to look ahead, not backwards. We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move. But we must act based on a clear understanding of what happened.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

We're really excited about how generative AI is already helping us with search and chat. It's more of a solution approach today to go into our search bar and say, "I wanna prepare for a seven year old's birthday party." You get a better answer than what we could've done in the past. And I'm excited about how search and chat will be more relevant and personal in the weeks and months to come. And it's moving really quickly.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

The adherence to conservative principles in the finances of the Government, in the relationship of the Government to the individual, to the State and to the locality... do demand different actions on the part of Government than were so in the past. Now that is what I am trying to do, and I will keep trying.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution. Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets.

What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.