Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

D. H. Lawrence

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

D. H. Lawrence

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

D. H. Lawrence

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

Conrad Hilton

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

Claire Tomalin

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

Claire Tomalin

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years.

Clarence Darrow

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.

Danny Masterson

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.

Daniel Cudmore

If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

Daniel D. Palmer

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

Daniel Dennett

An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.

Daniel Dennett

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.

David Coverdale

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

David Coverdale

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

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?