Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
~By Colin Powell ~
I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.
~By Juice Newton ~
I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.
~By Ann Veneman ~
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
~By Lou Holtz ~
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
~By Washington Irving ~
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
~By Mackenzie King ~
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
~By Garrett Fort ~
The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.
~By Meriwether Lewis ~
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
~By Ethel Waters ~
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
~By Fulton Oursler ~
I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
~By Tommy Cooper ~
I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
~By John D. Long ~
I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.
~By Brandon Routh ~
I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.
~By Darrell Royal ~
Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
~By William Least Heat Moon ~
I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
~By Edie Brickell ~
I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
~By Henny Youngman ~
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
~By Sylvia Ashton-Warner ~
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.
~By Roddy McDowall ~
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
~By John Wayne ~
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
~By Joan Rivers ~
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
~By Robert Hewison ~
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
~By Marie Osmond ~
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
~By Jon Stewart ~
Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~By Bell Hooks ~
Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
~By William Pollard ~
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
~By Margaret Mead ~
There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
~By Otis Blackwell ~
We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played.
~By Leo Kottke ~
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
~By James Joyce ~
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
~By George W. Bush ~
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
~By Shania Twain ~
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
~By Charles Kettering ~
Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.
~By Jim Ryun ~
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
~By James Howell ~
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
~By Groucho Marx ~
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
~By Dan Quayle ~
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
~By Will Rogers ~
I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.
~By Leslie Nielsen ~
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
~By Liza Minelli ~
Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.
~By Mike Gordon ~
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
~By David Letterman ~
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
~By William Faulkner ~
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.
~By Della Reese ~
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
~By Will Rogers ~
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
~By Willard Scott ~
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
~By Miyamoto Musashi ~
Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'
~By Conan O'Brien ~
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
~By King Hussein I ~
It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
~By Billy Higgins ~
I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
~By Frank Dane ~
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
~By Pamela Anderson ~
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
~By Dennis Gabor ~
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
~By Don Marquis ~
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
~By George Murray ~
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
~By Fernando Pessoa ~
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
~By Jackie Robinson ~
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
~By John Burroughs ~
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
~By Matthew Prior ~
The best time is always yesterday.
~By Tatyana Tolstaya ~
Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
~By William O. Douglas ~
For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
~By Kate Seredy ~
My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
~By Victoria Beckham ~
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
~By Warren Buffett ~
I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays.
~By Allen Johnson ~
I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'
~By Britney Spears ~
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
~By Peter Warlock ~
I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.
~By Haley Barbour ~
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
~By William Hazlitt ~
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.
~By Brit Hume ~
But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
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