Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Miller

The brain heals the past like an injury ...

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Keaton

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Diane Keaton

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Denis Kearney

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Demosthenes

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Denis Hayes

We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.

Deana Carter

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Dean Ornish

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

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

Edward Abbey

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

Aristotle

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Aristotle

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

Ben Jonson

Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

Alexis de Tocqueville

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

Alexandra Ripley

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

Sylvia Kristel

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.