Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Stephen Jay Gould

Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. [...] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

Adolf Hitler

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.

Helio Castroneves

Yeah. You know, we're not here to rub it in or make a statement. It's shows that for the past two years we've worked very hard.

Ludwig von Mises

Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation.

Ludwig von Mises

Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action appeared, where is lays out his case in a more popular form. The money sentences are “Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.

Ludwig von Mises

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

David McKay

You just walk past to get somewhere else,

We have to make sure that we don't look past them.

We're watching the radar rise on the river, that's an uncontrolled river, in years past we had some levee problems.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

William Shakespeare

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.

Tom Ridge

We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance,

Avery Johnson

We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning.

Lloyd McClendon

Over the past 15 years, it's been a wonderful ride, ... I'll always be a Pirate at heart." ()

My past two years have been injury-plagued. This spring training is very important for me.

Alice Miller

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

Alice Miller

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

Alice Munro

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

Alice Munro

I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.

Anne M. Mulcahy

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

Anne Lamott

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Anna Chlumsky

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Anna Akhmatova

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Andy Roddick

When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).

Alber Elbaz

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

Albert Bandura

People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera

Albert Bandura

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

Albert Claude

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Albert Ellis

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.