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Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.


Winston S. Churchill

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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future
WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
BLAISE PASCAL A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present...
BIL KEANE Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
GUILLERMO ALONSO Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
TONY CAMPOLO Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us t...
HENRY LUCE We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the fut...
THICH NHAT HANH Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the futu...
JOSEPH JOUBERT The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN This is just the beginning of the future fight for Israel. I am proud that we have just become the l...
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the ...
JACK KORNFIELD Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future....
BLAISE PASCAL Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in ...
WILLIAM WATSON aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities...
TONY CAMPOLO Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us ...
TONY CAMPOLO Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t...
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The DA is about building on the good of the present for a better future. We believe Cape Town can be...
HELEN ZILLE We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
GERHARD SCHROEDER The future is made of the same stuff as the present
SIMONE WEIL Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T...
STEVEN WOOD Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
ROGER ROSENBLATT We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
IRIS MURDOCH The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN They are changing the whole nature of who we are and what we have been. I hope the public understand...
JT REYNOLDS Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have st...
YUKIO MISHIMA Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle th...
CRISTINA SARALEGUI The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY I'm the American Winston Churchill.
MICHAEL MORIARTY The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
MARTY RUBIN Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the pas...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future
KAY LYONS If you realize the value of the lost past time, you will grasp the present and plan for the future.
MINA TADROS Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
ANTHONY KIEDIS Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We ha...
AL GORE We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... thi...
EDWARD SELLNER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH

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In Defeat: Defiance,
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In Peace: Good Will.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No crime is so great as daring to excel.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I never worry about action, but only inaction.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
WINSTON CHURCHILL One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do...
WINSTON CHURCHILL This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
WINSTON CHURCHILL My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alco...
WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am easily satisfied with the very best.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never, never, never give up.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is in the details.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
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