Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bobby Fischer

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Adolf Hitler

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

Adam Sandler

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Alistair Cooke

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Aerin Lauder

When you ask women what's the one thing they wish they had more of, they always say time.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Richard Lobb

The timing is a mystery to us. We did not seek this rule. We're not objecting to it, but we didn't support it, either.

Angela Lansbury

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Stephen King

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Garth Nix

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Isabel Allende

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

Freeman Dyson

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.