Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Schiller

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Friedrich Schiller

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce

George Fernandes

One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

Jon Meacham

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

Jon Bon Jovi

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Johnny Christ

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

Lu Xun

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

Louis Pasteur

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Lord Acton

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

John Coleman

There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant 'greenhouse' gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed. There has been no warming over 18 years.

John Coltrane

Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come - I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.

John Buchan

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

John Buchan

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.

John Boyd Orr

Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.

John Bingham

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

John Brabender

I agree with Bill [Burton]. I agree with the pastor. I don't think Donald Trump has to be out there making the case against Hillary Clinton. I think people have known her 24 years. How you feel about her, you feel about her.

Orson Scott Card

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Orson Scott Card

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Robert Kiyosaki

I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Robert Kiyosaki

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

Robert Kiyosaki

Think of something new you’ve actually learned in the past week; if you can’t think of anything, get comfortable where you’re at because you’re not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.

This is something we've been working toward since the past year. It's not really much of a change.

This is the day we pointed to. It's optimistic. It's enthusiastic. It's exciting. Really, on a scale of 1-10 of expectations, it's past a 10. It's just great, just wonderful.

Sophocles

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

Sophocles

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Steve Squyres

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

Steve Spurrier

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

Stephen Malkmus

What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.

Stephen King

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.