It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
VoltaireNothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
VoltaireWe are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard ShawWe will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.
Barack ObamaNow, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Barack ObamaTo 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.
Queen Elizabeth IINever think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest HemingwayWe don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda MeirWe have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThose who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
Pope FrancisThe best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
Robert KiyosakiExistence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.
Bad BunnyNecessity… the mother of invention.
PlatoI have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
Taylor SwiftAs in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David ThoreauNecessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas CarlyleMoney is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David ThoreauPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Ruth Bader GinsburgMy grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
Charles SpurgeonThe good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
Paulo CoelhoThe people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David ThoreauNo man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar WildeIf you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William JamesNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinA categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Immanuel KantTo state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. KennedyOnce I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerNothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch SpinozaFor my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillIf a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. MenckenWithout libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray BradburyYou learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Bob DylanBeauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund BurkeThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Stephen HawkingIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston ChurchillWar is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Niccolo MachiavelliGeography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. KennedyPolitics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert EinsteinA revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel CastroLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOver the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.
Joyce MeyerThe sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya AngelouIt’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya AngelouAction is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma GandhiThey say miracles are past.
William ShakespeareI do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mahatma GandhiThe past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel JohnsonEven in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
George LucasAnd that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
Barack ObamaI know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack ObamaRome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George EliotWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George OrwellTo hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus AureliusPromise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel JohnsonIn the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche