Quotes about yesterday

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“Friendship is not a game to play, It is not a word to say, It doesn't start on March and ends on May, It is tomorrow, yesterday, today and everyday.”

“Today you feel uplifted. Do not let yesterday and tomorrow bring you down.”

“This is indeed India! the land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition, whose yesterdays bear date with the mouldering antiquities of the rest of the nations — the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. Even now, after the lapse of a year, the delirium of those days in Bombay has not left me, and I hope never will.”

“I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday."”

“The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years”

“How you succeeded yesterday is water under the bridge, you have to reinvent yourself and look ahead for new accomplishments.”

“Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“She took me to a mall yesterday"' Lachlain sounded as if he'd just stifled a shudder. "And she pointed to a boy and said, 'I think I want one.' So naturally, I start thinking, But she meant a bairn—”

“The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.”

“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”

“You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday”

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”

“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.”

“You ate something yesterday. You sure?"asked Simon
Jace shrugged."Well, I wouldnt swear on a stack of Bibles. I think it was yesterday, though.”

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.”

“I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”

“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”

“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.”

“Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be?

Seriously, what else could go wrong?”

“Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.”

“When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.”

“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”

“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”

“Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain”

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”

“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”

“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”

“So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for.”

“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said”

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”

“I am not afraid of tomorrow
for I have seen yesterday
and I love today”

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

“Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”

“Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.”

“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”

“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”

“As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane”

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

“Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.”

“Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow”

“In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.”

“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”

“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”

“A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today”

“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”

“yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said.
really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system”

“I can remember my first one-night stand like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not the first. Or the second… or the fifth. I'll just begin with what I can remember and not concern myself with order.”

“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”

“you are
yesterday's
bouquet so sadly
raided”

“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”

“I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.”

“Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.”

“It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.”

“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”

“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”

“There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before…”

“In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

“Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.”

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”

“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday…”

“Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.”

“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

“procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday”

“To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.”

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.”

“Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love”

“Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.”

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”

“For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.”

“hate blows a bubble of despair into
hugeness world system universe and bang
-fear buries a tomorrow under woe
and up comes yesterday most green and young”

“CALVIN:
When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.”

“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

“If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?”

“Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.”

“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”

“Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!”

“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”

“You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.”

“I am delighted to inform you that in yesterday's sitting of the Cabinet it was unanimously agreed that your application of last August for authority to return to Germany should be sanctioned in principle…While acquainting Your Imperial Highness of the Cabinet's decision, I cannot forbear expressing my own personal pleasure that this decision was given by the Cabinet on my proposal, and, as I may permit myself to add, as reached unanimously and without objection or criticism, after my statement had been heard.”

“The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.”

“I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will—"the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present—until next year—that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”