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“Wait for your appointed time. When it is not your time, you will see that it is not your time. But when it was my time and somebody was trying to stop it, God insisted because it is God’s appointed time,”
Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Einstein put time into our geometry with space (where it belongs) so... "Matter tells space-time how to bend and space-time tells matter how to move" [Ref: Wheeler]. ...Swami Vivekananda ...suggested to Tesla ...winter ...1895-96 ...matter is ... (E=m). Matter is wound up against space-time and space-time is wound up against [matter].”
John Dobson (amateur astronomer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Führer confirms my impressions of yesterday. He would like an understanding with Great Britain. He knows that war with the British will be hard and bloody, and knows also that people everywhere today are averse to bloodshed.”
Franz Halder (1884–1972) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: July 14, 1940 diary entry, quoted in "Their Finest Hour" - Page 230 - by Winston Churchill - History - 1986.
“This is one of the most highly secret matters there are, perhaps the most secret. Anybody who speaks about it is shot dead immediately. Two talkative people died yesterday.”
Odilo Globocnik (1904–1945) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Kurt Gerstein, 17 August 1942. Quoted in "Genocide, Critical Issues of the Holocaust" - Page 455 - by Alex Grobman, Daniel Landes, Sybil Milton - History - 1983.
“Cause all I know is we said hello And your eyes look like coming home. All I know is a simple name, everything has changed. All I know is we held the door, You'll be mine and I'll be yours. All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.”
Taylor Swift (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I realised fairly early that the 'wisdom of the ages' - whether from 3000 years ago or yesterday - often was simply and perfectly adaptable to the context of the football arena, and immensely valuable. From my regular morning habit of reading, I would write down any wise, pragmatic and smart quotes and ideas that struck me, and that I felt could be of use in coaching.”
Jack Gibson (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm speaking totally for myself and I'm not speaking for the Republican Party and I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it's a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mays said he thought maybe the Skinner catch was a bit better than yesterday's, as well as a catch he made on a ball hit this season by Gus Bell of the Cincinnati Reds. "But I don't want to compare 'em," said Willie. "I'm just a ballplayer, not a sports writer. I don't compare 'em; I just catch 'em.”
Willie Mays (1931–2024) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reluctantly comparing his famous catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series to a pair of catches made during that season on May 26 and June 6, respectively (the latter "circus catch" made not against Bell, as per Mays' re…
“So what shape was the world in this morning? Even flatter than yesterday.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why hold ye so my heart, nor dimly let Through your deep leaves the light of yesterday, The faded glimmer of a sunshine set? Is it that in your darkness, shut from strife, The bread of tears becomes the bread of life? Far from the roar of day, beneath your boughs Fresh griefs beat tranquilly, and loves and vows Grow green in your gray shadows, dearer far Even than all lovely lights and roses are?”
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray" lines 6–14, Poems, 1860
“If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child... the children's day is mother's day, father's day and teachers' day, but is also the day of the animals. Whenever you look at a child, there is always a hidden figure, which is a dog behind, which is something very important.”
Dilma Rousseff (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.”
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God's truth and faithfulness "are a great deep." They resemble the ocean itself; always there — vast, fathomless, sublime, the same in its majesty, its inexhaustible fullness, yesterday, to-day, and forever; the same in calm and storm, by day and by night; changeless while generations come and pass; everlasting while ages are rolling away.”
Richard Fuller (minister) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you see my darling Out there in the crowd, Say I still remember Promises we vowed. Yesterday was dreaming, But my dream came tumbling down. Call the boys and tell them, Say I won't be there.”
Tom Springfield (1934–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, [at] the park, [I had] been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.”
Ai Weiwei (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know what I made the mistake of doing yesterday? I watched Ace Ventura: Pet Detective with my 8-year-old and my 10-year-old," Rogan said, as their conversation veered towards controversial films. … "I didn't realise how transphobic that fucking movie is.”
Joe Rogan (born 1967) first seen 1228 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joe Rogan Experience #1228 - Bari Weiss, 21-01-2020- Sofia Lotto Persio, Joe Rogan says Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is ‘insanely transphobic’, pinknews.co.uk, 26-01-2019.
“The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, "the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.”
Robert Payne Smith (1818–1895) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 35.
“Yesterday we came across a cemetery that had been completely destroyed by shellfire. The graves had been blown up, and the coffins lay about in the most uncomfortable positions. The shells had unceremoniously exposed their distinguished occupants to the light of day, and bones, hair, and bits of clothing could be seen through cracks in the burst-open coffins.”
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter to his first wife Minna, from the front, 1915; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 14
“Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. I've got the most terribly responsible job a man ever had.”
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment to reporters on having become president the day before, after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, (13 April 1945) as quoted in Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 by Robert J. Donov…
“A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is not my present nearer my past of yesterday than the present of Sirius?”
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Under these circumstances, except for any personal humiliation involved in admitting that I do not always understand the opinions of this Court, I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.”
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Massachusetts v. United States, 333 U.S. 611, 639-40 (1948) (dissenting)
“It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Law, say the gardeners, is the sun, Law is the one All gardeners obey To-morrow, yesterday, to-day.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. This will require our country to unite in steadfast determination and resolve. Freedom and democracy are under attack.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In speech to schoolchildren in New York City, urging Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, (September 26, 2007) Video:
“Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow, But it were vain to tell her so, And they are better for her praise.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady in the long run, and to take her revenge too — transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portrait of Yesterday.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
“We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mutability (1816), st. 4
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) first seen 1727 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727), Published in Swift's Miscellanies (1727)
Also quoted by: Jonathan Swift (misattributed)
“He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday?”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Werner, Act I, sc. i (1822).
“When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) first seen 1711 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thoughts in Westminster Abbey (1711)
“We saw a countless number of post-chaises full of boys pass by yesterday morning — full of future heroes, legislators, fools, and villains. You have never thanked me for my last letter, which went by the cheese. I cannot bear not to be thanked.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to J. Edward Austen (1816-07-09) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)
“The crisis of yesterday is the joke of to-morrow.”
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You Can't be Too Careful (1941)
“I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. [...] But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.”
E. M. Forster (1879–1970) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 419, to William Plomer, 12 December 1957
“Our free eyes open now on new horizons and can see what yesterday, in our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that “Western Civilization” disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and jackals ... A carnivorous animal that feeds on unarmed peoples.”
Che Guevara (1928–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Elderly Lady", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
“Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.”
Bill Clinton (born 1946) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: State of the Union Address (January 19, 1999)
“Apropos of the "The Lifted Veil," I think it will not be judicious to reprint it at present. I care for the idea which it embodies, and which justifies its painfulness. A motto which I wrote on it yesterday perhaps is a sufficient indication of that idea: —”
George Eliot (1819–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He said it was fearful to see them stand, Nor the living nor yet the dead, And the light glared strange in the glassy eyes Whose human look was fled. For frost had done one half life's part, And kept them from decay ; Those they loved had mouldered, but these Look'd the dead of yesterday.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) first seen 1826 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Frozen Ship, from The London Literary Gazette, (16th September 1826) - Metrical Fragment No. V. - The Frozen Ship, under the pen name 'Iole'
“What we may do To-morrow may perhaps decide our fate. We may have said but yesterday some word Which may not be recalled.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fifteen minutes ago I talked to California's Governor Pete Wilson and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. They told me that last night was better than the night before; today, calmer than yesterday. But there were still incidents of random terror and lawlessness this afternoon.”
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes - The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs - The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,' And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in An Organic Architecture (1970)
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...”
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Lindbergh (1998) by A. Scott Berg, p. 3
“It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters on Tactics (April 1917); Collected Works, Vol. 24.
“The danger is great. The enemy is far stronger than we are economically, just as yesterday he was far stronger than we were militarily.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise",(August, 1921)