Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Guare

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Retief Goosen

Any tournament we enter, we're playing to win. You would never look past this week. This is a big tournament for all of us, and one we all would like to win. The things I'm working on, I'm trying to get better to play well here.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Ayn Rand

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

Bertrand Russell

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

Benjamin Cardozo

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Ernst Toller

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Ernst Toller

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Edgar Mitchell

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Edgar Allan Poe

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Eleanor Catton

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Ehud Barak

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

Eileen Caddy

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

Eduardo Galeano

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

Flip Saunders

Antonio's been playing like that for the past month. He's been playing phenomenal.

No runner will be at a disadvantage over past participants and most will reap significant benefits.

The old school of police of the past has been replaced with academics, who haven't the stomach.

There's something to be said for walking into the school and seeing pictures of past gymnasts. Those are going to be there forever.

Richard Lugar

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

Don't look at the past six months. Look at the past five, 10 or 20 years of returns.

They still have to play us Saturday. So whatever they did in the past doesn't make a difference.

A lot of people who qualify for these phones could never have had one in the past.

Rich Rodriguez

They know Maryland. They know we've been embarrassed by them several times in the past.

Jaret Wright

You're going to think about it. Once you're out there, you've got to play the game. Everything is in the past after that.

They have been in our regional a lot and we have not been able to get past them. This time, we won't see them until the sectional.

Johan Botha

They don't say anything. In the past they've told players it was fine, and then it turned to be not fine, so now they just don't say anything.

Mahmoud Abbas

This place was a taboo for us for the past 38 years, and now we are standing here.

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.

Hayao Miyazaki

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.