Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Busey

F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.

Fulton J. Sheen

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

Frank Ocean

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

Frank O'Hara

And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.

Frank O'Hara

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

Hank Aaron

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Hannah Arendt

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

Hannah Arendt

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

Hannah Arendt

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

Hannah Arendt

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Hannah Arendt

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

Hannah Arendt

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.

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.

Gianfranco Fini

Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.

Gianni Versace

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

Gianni Versace

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Hassan Rouhani

If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

Harold Prince

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Harold Pinter

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

James Broughton

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Jalal Talabani

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Jamaica Kincaid

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Jamaica Kincaid

One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had were possible to have; and then one day I was not living like that at all. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be and things you used to do. Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.

Jacques Delors

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Jacques Barzun

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.