Don Henley Quotes

Never has the future become so rapidly the past.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

Everything changes.

It’s hard letting go in the past when there are no firm handholds in the future.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

What's extreme today will not be extreme tomorrow.

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.

One of the things I've said to teams and players from time to time - especially when things are going well like we had them going in Orlando - is that you better appreciate it and enjoy it because things change quickly in this game. You know, it's tough for guys to really think it will change on them, but it does.

But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.