Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry B. Eyring

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

Henry B. Eyring

The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.

Henry Giroux

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.

Henry Hazlitt

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

Hector Hugh Munro

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

Henry David Thoreau

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Henry Ford

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Henry Ford

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

Henry Ford

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

Manmohan Singh

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Malcolm X

The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

Malcolm X

In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.

Malcolm X

American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

John C. Maxwell

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

John C. Maxwell

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

John C. Maxwell

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

Jack Welch

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

Jerry Collins

And of course, I'm getting upset, because it's way past due. Rent should have been paid.

Elizabeth Smart

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

Eric Hobsbawm

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

Eric Hoffer

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Eric Berne

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Enoch Powell

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

James Cook

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

James Altucher

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

James Altucher

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

James Altucher

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.

Jacques Lacan

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.