Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Henry Ward Beecher

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Henry James

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

Helen Vendler

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

Heinrich Schliemann

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Helen Dunmore

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Helen Dunmore

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time flies, and what is past is done.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Kurt Cobain

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

Kurt Cobain

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

Khaleda Zia

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past

Khaled Hosseini

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Khalil Gibran

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Jonathan Swift

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Jonathan Swift

For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.

Jonathan Sacks

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Narendra Modi

We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.

Napoleon Hill

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

Napoleon Hill

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

Napoleon Bonaparte

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

One thing about the past. It's likely to last.

Oriana Fallaci

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

Orhan Pamuk

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

Orhan Pamuk

‎The past is always an invented land.

Olympia Snowe

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

Oliver Stone

I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.