Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pranab Mukherjee

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

Preity Zinta

I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!

Pope Paul VI

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

Pierre Loti

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

Neve Campbell

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

Nelson Mandela

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Nelson Mandela

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

Nelson Mandela

We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

Nelson Mandela

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

Nelson Mandela

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Nelson Mandela

I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.

Nelson Mandela

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

Nelson Mandela

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

Kazuo Ishiguro

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Kristen Stewart

I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Oprah Winfrey

There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.

Oprah Winfrey

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Oprah Winfrey

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

Oliver Goldsmith

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Margaret Atwood

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Margaret Atwood

A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

Margaret Atwood

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.

Margaret Atwood

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.

Margaret Atwood

The past is a closed door.

Margaret Atwood

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

Margaret Atwood

All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.

Margaret Atwood

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

Margaret Atwood

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

Margaret Atwood

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

Margaret Atwood

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.