Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Strummer

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

Hu Shih

Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.

Hu Jintao

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Howard Shore

There are many things that have stayed consistent. But the biggest change, of course, is technology, the way it's used, the way films are shot, the format that they're shot in, and the way films, of course, are edited. It's very different than it was in the past.

Howard Rheingold

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Honore de Balzac

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

Honore de Balzac

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Ian Ziering

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

Ice Cube

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

Ice Cube

The police don't look at you as long when they drive past. Sometimes they don't look at you at all. In South Central, you've got them looking and lurking. I think it's basic harassment. It's part of their tactics to have everybody nervous of them. In the valley, at least I don't feel it the same way.

For the past three weeks, this is better than watching TV.

Jack O'Neill

I wish I could say I didn't owe anything to anyone. But the truth is, I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for the courage and support of each and every one of you. I hope I can be as good a leader as we've had in the past and as good as you deserve.

Ivan Turgenev

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

Isaiah Berlin

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Isak Dinesen

We invent the past and remember the future.

Isak Dinesen

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

Ishmael Reed

The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.

Iris Murdoch

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

Ina Garten

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

Ichiro Suzuki

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Hyman Rickover

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

Kirsty Gallacher

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

Kevin Powell

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

Kevin Pietersen

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

Ken Burns

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Ken Burns

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Kazuo Ishiguro

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Kristen Stewart

I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Oprah Winfrey

There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.

Oprah Winfrey

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Oprah Winfrey

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.