Geoffrey Elton Quotes

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

Geoffrey Elton

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Get

• I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Future
  • Never
  • Feet

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • May
  • Future
  • Man

• Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Live
  • Done
  • Present

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• I don't know what my future is.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Future
  • Know

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Death

• It is the American practice to present others as guilty wherever they are defeated. Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference?'

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Funny
  • Present

• You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

  

  Bono U2
  • Future

• The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Future

• For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Future

• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • May

• The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

  

  Carole Maso
  • Future
  • Free
  • Words

• China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Energy
  • Water

• The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • Future
  • Present
  • Buried