‘I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but ‘it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’ – Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice in Chapter 10.
Linus van Pelt: I guess it’s wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today.Charlie Brown: No, that’s giving up. I’m still hoping that yesterday will get better. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
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. – Haley Barbour
There will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event. – Grace Jones
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well… yesterday’s news. – Harvey Fierstein
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers’ music is very topical. It almost says, ‘This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.’ Not mine. – Gordon Getty
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? – Garrett Fort
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. – Harvey Fierstein
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than yesterday. – Jonathan Swift
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow. – Jose Andres
I adore falseness. I don’t want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me. – Jim Crace
And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they’re not going to – if the feds aren’t going to do their job, well, then, I’m up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they’re not – they’re not enforcing the laws! – Jan Brewer
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. – Jim Ryun
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that?’ – Jay Leno
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday. – Condoleezza Rice
Yesterday’s news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists. – Julian Baggini
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. – Albert Claude
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. – Alexander Pope