Famous Quotes & Sayings

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

Julia Mancuso

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

Joseph Simmons

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

Leonard Slatkin

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

Leonardo da Vinci

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

Oscar Wilde

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Oscar Wilde

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Paul Reiser

I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.

Paul Gillmor

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Paul Fussell

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

Paul Fussell

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

Patrick Rothfuss

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Pastor Maldonado

That was a frustrating race for me. I pushed as hard as possible at the start on the medium tyres whilst everyone around me was on the grippier soft compound rubber. Once I moved to the soft tyres I was able to set the race's then fastest lap so things looked good with our strategy. Unfortunately the engine anti-kill triggered when I came in to make my final pit stop which cost me a lot of time. It's frustrating as we should have finished strongly. My focus is now Barcelona where I've delivered very strongly in the past.

Park Geun-hye

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Padmasree Warrior

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Paloma Faith

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

Lev Grossman

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

Lev Grossman

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Leopold Von Ranke

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Leopold Von Ranke

To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).

Leon Redbone

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Leon Kass

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Leon Panetta

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.

Joe Montana

I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.

Joe Montana

I don't live in the past.

Joe Meno

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

Jodi Picoult

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

Jodi Picoult

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

Jodi Picoult

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.