Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Howard Zinn

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

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.

He's a quality wrestler, but so is Cole. If Cole can get past this one, he can go a long way.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!