Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aberjhani

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Aberjhani

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

A. J. P. Taylor

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

A. R. Ammons

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

A. B. Yehoshua

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. A. Milne

That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

Aeschylus

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Adrienne Rich

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

Agatha Christie

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

Adrian Rogers

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

Adora Svitak

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

Adam Phillips

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Adam Lambert

I'm very inspired by past music.

Adam Johnson

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

Adam Gopnik

The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

Ada Leverson

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

Abraham Cowley

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Alex Smith

Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

Alex Pettyfer

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

We're doing nothing different than we have done in the past weeks. We've talked about what it takes to win. We're going to use our God-given talents and prepare mentally, and we're just going to go out and have fun.

We preached all week don't look past these guys. Once we got behind, we started pressing. We weren't relaxed.

Jerry Spinelli

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel.

We still feel it's important to have them pay a penalty for the past violations.

Daphne Guinness

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

Dar Williams

I have a sordid past.

Daniel Pauly

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

Dan Millman

. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.