Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dar Williams

I have a sordid past.

Daniel Pauly

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

Dan Millman

. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

Corliss Lamont

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

Cormac McCarthy

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Columba Bush

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

Colum McCann

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

Colum McCann

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Clifford D. Simak

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe

Cliff Martinez

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

David Liss

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

David Halberstam

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Corey Clark

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Corita Kent

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

Corey Feldman

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

Coretta Scott King

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

Confucius

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

Confucius

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

Confucius

Study the past if you want to define the future.

Confucius

When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

Daniel Yergin

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

Daniel Webster

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Daniel Tosh

Germany's like Wisconsin, but with, like, a really bad past.

Dana Rohrabacher

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

Dana Spiotta

I don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on anything. Maybe it's the totalizing impact of corporate culture, maybe it's the atomizing impact of technology.

Dane Cook

Hi, I'm a buck tooth and I like to be outside past the lips.

David Cameron

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

David Byrne

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Darren Johnson

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

David Leavitt

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

David Limbaugh

Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.