Condoleezza Rice Quotes

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

History turns in one direction only, and you can't get it back. You can only draw conclusions.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

The toe you step on today may be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow.

If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.