Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Imperioli

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

Michael Ignatieff

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Without a past you can't have a future.

Michael Douglas

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

Michael Aspel

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

Ray Bradbury

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Ray Bradbury

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past—a combination of both.

Ray Bradbury

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Ray Bradbury

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Randy Neugebauer

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

Randy Savage

Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!

Ralph Neas

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

Eric Hoffer

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Eric Berne

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Enoch Powell

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

James Cook

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

James Cook

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

James Altucher

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

James Altucher

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

James Altucher

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.

Jacques Lacan

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

Jacky Ickx

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

Henry Rollins

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Henry Rollins

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

Henry Rollins

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Henry Rollins

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Henry B. Eyring

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

Henry B. Eyring

The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.