William Pfaff Quotes

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

History passes the final judgment.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

We can not escape history.

Don't ever forget the history! It will make and change who we are!

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

We are sons of yesterday, not of the morning. The past is our mortal mother, no dead thing. Our future constantly reflects her to the soul.

We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

I don't think you can erase history.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

The past is more than a memory.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

I'm part of history.