Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainbow Rowell

That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Scarlett Thomas

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

Lin Yutang

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Li Keqiang

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

Lennart Meri

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Lennox Lewis

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

Laura Anne Gilman

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

L. Ron Hubbard

Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.

L. Ron Hubbard

There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.

L. Ron Hubbard

Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.

Theophilus London

I take references from the past and flip them.

Theresa May

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

Theresa May

I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

Therese of Lisieux

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

Terry Pratchett

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

Terry Pratchett

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Marc Forster

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

Marc Andreessen

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Thomas A. Edison

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

Thomas A. Edison

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Simon Conway Morris

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Sid Meier

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

Sheryl Lee

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

Sharon Gless

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

Neil Peart

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

Neil Patrick Harris

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.