Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Gillespie

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

Earl Scruggs

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Earl Scruggs

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

Elizabeth Moon

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Elizabeth McGovern

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

Elizabeth Olsen

Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

Edwin Land

The present is the past biting into the future.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Edgar Quinet

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Edgar Guest

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

Benjamin Franklin

Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

Ben Bernanke

The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

Ben Bernanke

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

Ben Affleck

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

Barbara Tuchman

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

Barbara Tuchman

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

Arthur Goldberg

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

Arthur Eddington

There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

Arthur Golden

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Arthur C. Clarke

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

Arthur C. Clarke

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...

Anton Chekhov

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

Anton Chekhov

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

Ban Ki-moon

We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.

Boris Kodjoe

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bob Dylan

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Bob Dylan

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

Bob Dylan

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.