Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Gibbs

We wish the past two years could have been smoother.

Mike Tyson

I'm not going to keep boxing. It's part of my past and now I want to live my life.

Kirsten Dunst

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

Kimberly Elise

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

Kim Stanley Robinson

There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

Kevin Drum

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

Kenneth Tynan

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

Kathleen Hanna

Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.

Karl Pearson

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

Karl Ove Knausgard

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.

Karl Marx

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Karl Marx

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Karl Marx

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Judi Dench

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

Josh Bernstein

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

They've got more room to move, and they will move. That's what they've always done in past recessions and what they'll do again.

Jim DeMint

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All tradition is merely the past.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all...

Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Jeremy Siegel

It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.

Jeremy Rifkin

The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.

Jenna Blum

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

Richard Lugar

Russians in the past had placed severe limitations on inspections at these storage sites, so this is a significant breakthrough,

Winston Churchill

Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell.

It's pretty bad. Now we know how some of the past teams felt.

It's a relief. Getting past the first round is always the toughest.

It wasn't until this past year that we started to feel more comfortable.

It's not going to be as wet as it was for the past week. We'll still have rain, but it won't be the big deluges that we saw this weekend.