Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

Neal A. Maxwell

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

Muhammad Ali

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

Marilyn Ferguson

Our past is not our potential.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

Mark Udall

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

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Mark Hoppus

The past is only the future with the lights on

Mark Batterson

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Mark Batterson

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

Mark Batterson

I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.

Marguerite Duras

When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

Miguel de Unamuno

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Ned Vizzini

If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.

Nathan Myhrvold

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

Naima Adedapo

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

Nadine Gordimer

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

George H. W. Bush

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

George Harrison

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

Harold Bloom

We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

Haile Selassie

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Haile Selassie

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

Gunther Schuller

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Greg Mortenson

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Greg Norman

I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.

Graham Nelson

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

Graham Nash

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

Jim Butcher

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.