Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Read

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Herbert Marcuse

In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Everett Dirksen

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

Evgeny Morozov

In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

Evelyn Waugh

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Eugene Jarecki

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Esther Dyson

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

Esther Hicks

There is nothing that is happening because of something you vibrated a long time ago or in a past life. It is not about what you were born into. It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting.

Esther Hicks

I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

Esther Hicks

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

Ernest Hemingway

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Ethel Merman

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

Jez Butterworth

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Jhumpa Lahiri

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

Graham Hancock

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

Giovanni Boccaccio

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Giovanni Ribisi

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

Gil Gerard

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

Harriet Martineau

The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Harper Lee

I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.

Gregory David Roberts

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

Ian Stewart

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

Ian Somerhalder

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

Iain Duncan Smith

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

Hugh Bonneville

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

Hrithik Roshan

If you are having a tough time today, push past those boundaries, because by challenging your fears today will become the strength you feel tomorrow... DO WHAT YOU FEAR, DON'T FEAR WHAT YOU DO.

Howard Zinn

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.