Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flann O'Brien

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

Flannery O'Connor

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

Fiona Apple

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.

Herbert Hoover

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Herbert Hoover

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.

Henry M. Morris

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

Henry Louis Gates

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

Henry Miller

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

Henning Mankell

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

Henri Bergson

It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Helen Keller

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

Helen Keller

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Cat Stevens

Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

Cassandra Clare

The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever: Someday you and I will be the only two left.

Cassandra Clare

You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward

Cassandra Clare

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Cassandra Clare

You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

Cassandra Clare

Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record." Simon, Clary, and Jace, pg. 115

Cassandra Clare

The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

Cassandra Clare

So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.

George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.

George Eliot

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

George Eliot

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

George Eliot

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Gottfried Leibniz

The past is pregnant with the present.

Gottfried Leibniz

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

Gottfried Leibniz

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

Gottfried Leibniz

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

Gore Vidal

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Gore Vidal

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Gillian Jacobs

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

Gillian Jacobs

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.