Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Blair

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

Thor Heyerdahl

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Richard Branson

Past failures unlock future successes

Robert Anthony

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Robert A. Heinlein

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Rihanna

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

Tim O'Reilly

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Tim Robbins

Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.

Tilly Bagshawe

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

Tim Allen

I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.

Thomas Traherne

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Thomas Szasz

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

Thomas Jefferson

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

Steven Soderbergh

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

Regina Brett

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

Toni Morrison

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

Toni Morrison

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

Tommy Franks

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

Tom Turner

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Vilsack

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Tom Vilsack

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Tom Stoppard

I'm attracted to the past.

Tom Perrotta

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

Tina St. John

No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?” “Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,” Gideon replied. “Said he had the situation under control.” Lucan grunted, wry despite the weight of the discussion previously under way. “Where’ve I heard that line before? Famous last words from more than one of us over the course of the past year and a half.

Tina Turner

I don't like to dwell on the past.

Sam Ervin

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Tamara Ecclestone

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

Sylvia Plath

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Ronald Burkle

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

Ronald Blythe

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Ron Howard

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.