Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanne Harris

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Jo Coudert

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.

Jo Coudert

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Jo Nesbo

Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

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.

Novak Djokovic

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

Novalis

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Emile Zola

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Ellen Goodman

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

Ellen Goodman

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

Ellen Glasgow

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Ellen Glasgow

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

Ellen Glasgow

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Ellen G. White

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

Eric Ries

New Customers come from the action of past customers

Eric Ries

Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.

Erasmus Darwin

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!

Eric Alterman

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Eric Alterman

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.

Emily Giffin

Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

Emily Giffin

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.