A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.
Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
The past should always remain in the past because the present needs your attention.
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
If you don't remember the past, then you never truly forget it.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.
Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE
Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.
…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.
Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.
