Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publilius Syrus

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Pranab Mukherjee

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

Preity Zinta

I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!

Pope Paul VI

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

Pierre Loti

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

Neve Campbell

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

Nelson Mandela

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Nelson Mandela

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

Nelson Mandela

We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

Nelson Mandela

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

Nelson Mandela

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Nelson Mandela

I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.

Nelson Mandela

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

Nelson Mandela

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

Nelson A. Miles

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Neil Turok

There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

Neil Young

I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

Neil Young

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

Rachel Joyce

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

R. Lee Ermey

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

Mike Huckabee

Well I'm sure now that the press is going to tell you (Mitt Romney) isn't perfect. Now my friends for the past four years, we've tried the one that the press thought was perfect and that hasn't worked out all that well for us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

Neville Chamberlain

Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.

Newt Gingrich

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Nhat Hanh

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

Nhat Hanh

Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.

Nhat Hanh

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

Nhat Hanh

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

Nhat Hanh

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Noam Chomsky

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ...

John Ashbery

We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

John Ashbery

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?