quotes about Yesterday
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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
-- Ace FrehleySource : Ace Frehley, Joe Layden, John Ostrosky (2011). “No Regrets”, p.296, Simon and Schuster
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Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.
-- Achille Mbembe -
I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.
-- Adam Wilde -
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
-- Adele Faber -
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
-- Adrian RogersSource : Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2013). “Unveiling the End Times in Our Time: The Triumph of the Lamb in Revelation”, p.27, B&H Publishing Group
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A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come
-- Alan Coren -
Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.
-- Alan Shearer -
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
-- Albert Camus -
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
-- Albert Claude -
It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
-- Alexander Pope -
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To-day is always different from yesterday.
-- Alexander Smith -
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
-- Alexandra RipleySource : Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, Macmillan Reference USA
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I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!
-- Alfred Brendel -
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
-- Alice Morse Earle -
I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.
-- Allyson Felix -
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
-- Alphonse Karr -
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
-- Alvin Toffler -
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today
-- Amit Abraham -
Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.
-- Amy GrantSource : Source: collider.com
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Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.
-- Amy WeberSource : "Amy Weber...bikini babe". AskMen interview, www.askmen.com.
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I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret,
-- Andrew DavidsonSource : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.132, Anchor
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One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
-- Andrew Greeley -
My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting. ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.
-- Andrew Spano -
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
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Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way.
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius (1657) translated by Julia Bilger, 1944.
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I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
-- Ann Voskamp -
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
-- Anna Freud -
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
-- Anne Sexton -
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Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
-- Antero Alli -
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious — nobody saw me.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
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I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
-- Ariwara no NarihiraSource : Ariwara no Narihira, “I Have Always Known”
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If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
-- Art Buchwald -
Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!
-- Astrid LindgrenSource : Astrid Lindgren (2015). “Pippi Longstocking”, p.34, Oxford University Press - Children
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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
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For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
-- Aulus Persius FlaccusSource : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”
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But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.
-- Aulus Persius FlaccusSource : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 67,
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Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday
-- Avril LavigneSource : Song: Darlin', Album: Goodbye Lullaby
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Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.
-- Aziz Ansari -
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The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
-- B. TravenSource : B. Traven (1980). “The treasures of B. Traven”, Jonathan Cape
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
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It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.
-- Barry DillerSource : "Diller to profitable companies: Lay off the layoffs" by Ben Klayman, blogs.reuters.com. December 4, 2008.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
-- Barry Manilow -
They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
-- Ben Harper -
I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.
-- Ben SilbermannSource : "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.
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Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
-- Bernard Marcus -
A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
-- Beryl MarkhamSource : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.265, Open Road Media
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I love myself today, not like yesterday.
-- Bif NakedSource : Song: I Love Myself Today, Album: Purge, 2002
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The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.
-- Bill BuxtonSource : Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.37, Morgan Kaufmann
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Engvall: Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey..." (pantomimes hitting his son) "We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".
-- Bill Engvall -
Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.
-- Bill Hicks -
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."
-- Bill NighySource : Source: collider.com
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We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected or feared very high winds last night, and they didn't get them.
-- Bill Taylor -
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Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!
-- Billy Blanks -
It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.
-- Billy Collins -
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.
-- Bob ArumSource : "Who You Need to Know Behind the Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight" by Gary Andrew Poole, www.esquire.com. May 01, 2015.
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Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
-- Bob Dylan -
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
-- Bob Feller -
Love like there's no tomorrow; live like there's no yesterday. We're forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
-- Bob Goff -
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It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.
-- Bob Seger -
If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
-- Bob Taft -
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
-- Brad BlantonSource : Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell
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I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.
-- Brandon RouthSource : "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.
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It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.
-- Brandon RouthSource : "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.
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We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. The encouraging message of the gospel is that God does not often require us to perform sensational or extraordinary deeds but rather to try to do better today than we did yesterday. He is mindful of our desires, our determination, and our direction as well as of our deeds.
-- Brent L. Top -
Sachin Tendulkar the best yesterday, today and forever
-- Brett Lee -
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.
-- Brian Tracy -
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What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?
-- Brian Williams -
You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.
-- Brit Hume -
Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.
-- Bruce LeeSource : Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.123, Tuttle Publishing
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Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
-- Bruce Mau -
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A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
-- Camille Paglia -
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.
-- Carl HolmesSource : Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.926, e-artnow
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Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.
-- Carroll Shelby -
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If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.
-- Cat Osterman -
A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
-- Catherine AndersonSource : Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.53, Penguin
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Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.
-- Catherine Gilbert MurdockSource : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2013). “Heaven Is Paved with Oreos”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.
-- Catherine McCormackSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.
-- Chang-Rae LeeSource : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin
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I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?
-- Charles Foster Johnson -