Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. H. Liddell Hart

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

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.

David McKay

You just walk past to get somewhere else,

Gary Jones

It don't have no reason at all. It just says I'm ineligible. To me right now, I'm past frustration.

Shaun Edwards

I think his progression over the past three years has been meteoric,

Pau Gasol

That was the play we wanted to run. It's worked out well in the past and it worked out perfectly again.

Albert Einstein

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

Albert Einstein

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

Albert Einstein

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

Albert Einstein

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

Albert Einstein

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

Alfred Rosenberg

The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

Alfred North Whitehead

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

Alfred North Whitehead

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Alfred North Whitehead

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Alfred North Whitehead

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Alexander Cockburn

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Aldous Huxley

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Aldous Huxley

What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

Aldous Huxley

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

Aldous Huxley

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Aldous Huxley

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

Albert Einstein

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Albert Einstein

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

Albert Einstein

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Alexander Hamilton

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

Alexander Hamilton

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe, cruel, and oppressive measures. Instead of endeavoring to establish their authority in the affection of their subjects, they think they have no security but in their fear.

Adolf Hitler

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

Adam Schiff

Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.