Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Wright

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

Joanne Harris

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Jo Coudert

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.

Jo Coudert

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Jo Nesbo

Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

Frank McCourt

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...

Maggie Smith

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

Maggie Stiefvater

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

Maggie Stiefvater

I laughed, loud enough that Delia looked up at me. She made motions for me to come over, but I pretended to be looking past her into the food tent. "Hurry. Pretend you're pointing something out so I can pretend not to see her." Luke put a hand on my shoulder and pointed with the other towards the sky. "Look, the moon." "That was the best you could come up with?" I demanded.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

Mackenzie Phillips

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Madame de Stael

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

Madame de Stael

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Haruki Murakami

ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

Haruki Murakami

I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

Haruki Murakami

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

Haruki Murakami

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

Han Suyin

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

Gustav Stresemann

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

Graydon Carter

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Graydon Carter

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The past is not what it was.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

John Dryden

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

John Dryden

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Maynard Keynes

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

John Maynard Keynes

The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future

John Lewis Gaddis

I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

John Lewis

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

Pierre Trudeau

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.