Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond de Goncourt

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Eddie Martinez

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.

Eddie Murphy

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

David Horowitz

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

Deana Carter

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Dean Ornish

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Edgar Mitchell

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Edgar Allan Poe

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Eleanor Catton

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Ehud Barak

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

Eileen Caddy

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

Eduardo Galeano

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

Edward Abbey

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

Aristotle

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Aristotle

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

Ben Jonson

Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.

Elizabeth Bowen

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

Elena Kagan

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.

Deepak Chopra

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

Deepak Chopra

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

Deepak Chopra

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

Deepak Chopra

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

Deepak Chopra

Throughout your day, when you notice that your thoughts have drifted away, come back to where you are. You'll instantly see why you drifted away, whether because you were bored, anxious, dwelling on the past, or anticipating the future.

Deepak Chopra

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

Deepak Chopra

As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.

Deepak Chopra

In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.

Dizzy Gillespie

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Eben Alexander

To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.