Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Carroll

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.

John Calvin

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

John Bercow

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

John Benjamin Hickey

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

John Berger

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

John Berger

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

John Berger

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Johan Huizinga

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Johan Huizinga

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

Johan Huizinga

He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.

Johan Huizinga

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Joel McHale

My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy.

Joe Hill

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

Jimmy Wales

I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby...

George Allen

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Georg Solti

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

James Toback

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

James Taylor

Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.

James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Surowiecki

Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

James Packer

I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.

James Patterson

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?

James Patterson

I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out." Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy. Dang, I'm good.

James Montgomery

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

James Montgomery

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

James Martineau

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

James Macdonald

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

James Madison

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

James Madison

We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced by future contrivances; and both by that and a common knowledge of human affairs, that it would nourish unceasing animosities, and not improbably terminate in serious interruptions of the public tranquility.

James M. Barrie

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

James L. Farmer, Jr.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Joe Gibbs

The past doesn't buy you much.

Joe Eszterhas

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.