Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

William Shakespeare

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

Louis C. K.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

We had a 15-, 20-point lead. We were just whistling down the street. Now we're whistling past the graveyard.

Billy Graham

You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

Billy Graham

Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".

Billy Graham

Don't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.

Billy Graham

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

Neil Patrick Harris

As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.

Orson Scott Card

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

Ram Dass

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

Sylvia Kristel

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.

Jerry Spinelli

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel.

We still feel it's important to have them pay a penalty for the past violations.

We preached all week don't look past these guys. Once we got behind, we started pressing. We weren't relaxed.

We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

Alan Cohen

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

Alan Cohen

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Alan Cohen

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Pearl Jam

Where have they been the past 10 years?

We're doing nothing different than we have done in the past weeks. We've talked about what it takes to win. We're going to use our God-given talents and prepare mentally, and we're just going to go out and have fun.

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.

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.

Avery Johnson

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