Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Wilber

....all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity...

Ken Wilber

Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless.

Ken Wilber

The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

Katherine Jenkins

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

Kate Chopin

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

Kate Bush

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

Karen Thompson Walker

But the past is long, and the future is short.

Julia Ward Howe

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Julian Barnes

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.

Ken Ham

The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself.

Ken Kesey

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Ken Kesey

The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.

Kirsty Gallacher

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

Kevin Powell

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

Kevin Pietersen

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

Ken Burns

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Ken Burns

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

There seems to be a gravitation toward the past.

Michael Imperioli

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

Michael Ignatieff

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Without a past you can't have a future.

Michael Aspel

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

Ray Bradbury

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Ray Bradbury

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past—a combination of both.

Ray Bradbury

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Ray Bradbury

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Randy Neugebauer

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

Randy Savage

Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!

Ralph Neas

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

Rajneesh

I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness.

Rajneesh

The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.

Rainer Maria Rilke

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?