Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

Richard Holbrooke

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

Richard Hofstadter

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Dawkins

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Robert M. Pirsig

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Robert Evans

Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.

Robert E. Howard

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Walt Disney

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

Walt Disney

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

Wassily Kandinsky

Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation...

Wassily Kandinsky

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

Walter Lippmann

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Walter Lippmann

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

William Styron

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

Wilkie Collins

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Wilhelm Reich

No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.

Walter Ulbricht

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

Walter Wriston

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine,

Walter Savage Landor

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Walter Dean Myers

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Vladimir Putin

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.

William Kingdon Clifford

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

Winona LaDuke

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

Winston Churchill

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Winston Churchill

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Winston Churchill

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

Winston Churchill

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

Winston Churchill

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

Winston Churchill

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

Winston Churchill

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

William Rotsler

It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.