Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Beckett

What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

Ryan Phillippe

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

Waris Ahluwalia

I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.

W. P. Kinsella

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

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.

Rajiv Gandhi

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

Rajiv Gandhi

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

Rainbow Rowell

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

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.