Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

Phyllis McGinley

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Rachel Carson

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time...

Rachel Carson

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

Rachel Carson

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

Rabindranath Tagore

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

Rabindranath Tagore

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Rabindranath Tagore

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

Plato

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Josie Maran

I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.

Jostein Gaarder

We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.

Joseph Bruchac

There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.

Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.

Konrad Adenauer

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

Kobe Bryant

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Kofi Annan

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

Kevin Kelly

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Kent Haruf

I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

Kent Nerburn

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Katy Perry

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

Ramana Maharshi

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day you laugh is also here and now.

Ramana Maharshi

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

Ramana Maharshi

You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.

Ramana Maharshi

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Ramana Maharshi

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

the Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

Minnie Driver

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

Minka Kelly

The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

Pearl S. Buck

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.