Top 100 Yesterday S Quotes
#2. The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.
Jim Webb
#3. Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface.
Stephenie Meyer
#4. Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Bob Dylan
#5. You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up.
Larry McMurtry
#6. Wonderland is here now.
Don't know what we might see.
Yesterday's gone forever.
But my future's up to me.
What a future it will be ... .
Lisa Schroeder
#7. Yesterday's poets are today's detectives. They spend a life sniffing out the hundredth line, wrapping up a case, and limping exhausted into the sunset.
Patti Smith
#8. I do not pursue yesterday's wishes, for you are true. No illusions can illustrate your illustrious truth. My Queen, just look at you.
Delano Johnson
#9. She tried to think of a number she could ring, or a site online, but there was nowhere she could find out what she needed to know. It was all about tomorrow: warm fronts, cold snaps, showers expected. No one ever stopped to describe yesterday's weather.
Anne Enright
#10. We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen
#11. Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday's mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow's problems, and ingratitude for today's blessings.
William Arthur Ward
#12. If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
Ernest King
#13. I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
Elizabeth Edwards
#14. In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday's affliction and the hope of tomorrow's gifts.
Ariana Carruth
#15. The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.
Leo Steinberg
#16. If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
John Shelby Spong
#17. To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.
Greg Carlson
#18. The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
Charles Nicolle
#19. Each day is a new beginning. You can start fresh, anticipating what today will bring. Or you can just settle for yesterday's doubts, fears, or worries. Which road will you take? Do you take the path to the clear present or the the shadows of the past?
Eve Evangelista
#20. The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
Hannah Arendt
#21. Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.
Thomas Sowell
#22. Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Kenneth L. Pike
#23. It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise
Todd Stocker
#24. Yesterday's dust
determined
today's range of vision
Mario
#25. As I age, I realize that now is yesterday's later, and that later is a bad plan.
Stephen Guise
#26. One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.
Amy Dickinson
#27. Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
Larry McMurtry
#28. In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Jean Rostand
#29. Don't punish yourself over yesterday's mistakes and failures, just try to accept them and also learn from them; try to move on to the bright future.
Euginia Herlihy
#30. The sense of immunity felt by a particular group currently in power is bound to be illusory. That is made clear when we look at how partisan affiliation shapes people's sense of the dangers of state surveillance. What emerges is that yesterday's cheerleaders can quickly become today's dissenters.
Anonymous
#31. You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Ronald Reagan
#32. Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??
Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.
Toba Beta
#33. The past makes a good bishop but a poor king ... it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.
Richard Paul Evans
#34. Yesterday's tomorrow brought us close ...
Tomorrow's yesterday pulled us apart again.
Between yesterdays and tomorrows, a life lived !
We blossomed and wilted, blossomed and wilted again !
Deeba Salim Irfan
#35. Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
Horace
#36. To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
John C. Maxwell
#37. Today's happiness depends on yesterday's choice, just as today's choice will determine tomorrow's happiness.-RVM
R.v.m.
#38. I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
Vanilla Ice
#39. Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears
To-day of past Regrets and future Fears
To-morrow?
Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
Omar Khayyam
#40. He'll rock your world then toss you aside like you're yesterday's trash." Chico Rivera
Bella Jeanisse
#41. Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.
Eric Sloane
#43. Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.
Adele Parks
#44. 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
#45. For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
Haruki Murakami
#46. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
John Donne
#47. The orange sun is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday's blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.
Isaac Babel
#48. News spoils quick, friend, like milk.' 'I say it gets better if carefully kept, like wine.' 'I'm glad you like the vintage, but I ain't buying yesterday's news.
Joe Abercrombie
#49. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Phyllis McGinley
#50. It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.
Richard Paul Evans
#51. Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
Jon Bon Jovi
#52. Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success.
John Patrick Hickey
#53. Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.
Billy Graham
#54. Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.
Richard Paul Evans
#55. The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
Richard Hofstadter
#56. I'm energetic and passionate about the needs - the things we need to fix. I don't feel old, I don't feel like yesterday's news
Jeb Bush
#57. We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.
Daphne Du Maurier
#58. Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.
Richard Corliss
#59. Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. Today's hard news stories were yesterday's dystopian SF. Rereading
Pat Cadigan
#61. It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!
Muhammad Asad
#62. I don't like to do things the same way every time. You always want to be evolving as a composer, and if your creative process is exactly the same each time, then how do you expect today's work to be any different from yesterday's?
Christopher Tin
#63. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!
Marshall McLuhan
#65. Why and earth should an unshaven young man in a track suit be carrying a basket of oranges and yesterday's newspaper? The whole boat must of noticed him!
John Le Carre
#66. Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
Marshall McLuhan
#67. We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
#68. C. So, hunny, don't waste your time trying to label or define me ... 'cause I'm not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I'm all of that and then some. And whereas I can't live inside yesterday's pain, I can't live without it.
George C. Wolfe
#69. Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?
Louise Hay
#70. I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino
#71. Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
Robin Hobb
#72. How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
Jackie Robinson
#74. I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.
Andy Kim
#75. Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.
Jennifer Young
#76. In yesterday's post, I asked how many of you guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a hot human woman. About 95% of the hetero guys said they would. The other 5% expressed a strong preference for lying.
Scott Adams
#77. Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass.
Lois Greiman
#78. Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
William Faulkner
#79. Between tomorrow dream and yesterday's regret is today's OPPORTUNITY.
Unknown
#80. And the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit trying to escape the burn of yesterday's presence.
Kellie Elmore
#81. People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.
Corey Feldman
#82. Most of the time, yesterday's level of increase will not be enough to secure tomorrow"s increase
Sunday Adelaja
#83. Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#84. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.
Peter Drucker
#85. Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.
Dave Mustaine
#87. Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.
Fred Upton
#88. Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
Bernard Marcus
#89. Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
Joyce Rachelle
#90. The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
Alvin Toffler
#91. Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth
#92. Us? There is no us. You threw us away like yesterday's trash.
Sarah Grimm
#93. I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.
John Foster Dulles
#94. To live is to be other. Even feeling is impossible if one feels today what one felt yesterday, for that is not to feel, it is only to remember today what one felt yesterday, to be the living corpse of yesterday's lost life.
Fernando Pessoa
#95. Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.
Julian Baggini
#96. Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.
Neale Donald Walsch
#97. To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.
Christine Caine
#98. In order to be wise, we cannot expect yesterday's wise decision to relieve us from the necessity and responsibility to make wise decisions today.
Marshall Lenne
#99. We often respond to today's world with yesterday's adaptations. (quoting Dan Fesster)
Annie Murphy Paul
#100. Go within and release yesterday's sorrow so you may embrace today's joy.
Liz Hester
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