Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joan D. Vinge

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Joan Didion

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Joan Didion

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

Joan Jett

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

Jimmy Breslin

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Jimi Hendrix

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

Eric Thomas

FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!

Eric Ludy

The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today.

Eric Liu

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Emma Stone

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

Emma Goldman

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

John Mellencamp

I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past.

John McCain

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

John McCain

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

John McCain

[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.

John Jakes

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

John Jay Chapman

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

John Hope Franklin

One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.

John Hickenlooper

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

John Hodgman

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

Neal Stephenson

Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.

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?

Shay Mitchell

I'm a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day.

Michelle Malkin

The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life.

Michael Weatherly

I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.