Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carine Roitfeld

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

Cam Gigandet

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

C. S. Lewis

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Bryant H. McGill

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Because of the situation that we are in, everything we've done in the past several years will be called into question. We have to look at what we are trying to do here.

Jason Bay

Great. To see all these people here the past two days--it's just impressive.

from 225 to 9 in the past two months.

I don't think it's going to be all pretty and sweet like it has been the past three games. I've made my share of mistakes, but the thing that I want to do is get better.

Larry David

If they were pictures of the Yankees of the past 50 years, I'd do just as well.

I have got to know Paul over the past year or two from trying to pinch his players on loan.

Omar Vizquel

I don't know why that is such an important thing. The past is the past.

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

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.

W. S. Gilbert

The really fascinating thing about research is the new science, but to get to it, you have to get past that first level.

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.

We've been out of rhythm the past two weeks. We worked some things out today.

William Faulkner

The past is never forgotten; it's never even past

Sean Kelly

The players we have are already past a lot of other players in terms of development. A lot of us have already been playing together for years (with clubs).

We've got to do whatever we have to do and work past it.

Stephen Jay Gould

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

Stephen Jay Gould

[H]istorical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

We can't look past nobody. That's probably what we did tonight.

We can't look in the past now. All we can do is go back and practice, try to improve.

Shelden Williams

We can't look back and say we only went past the Sweet 16 one time. This is a different team, and this is a team that we think can do something special.

We collaborated over the past two years and shaped the show.

Julian Barnes

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Kurt Vonnegut

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.