Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

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

Ally Condie

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Anthony de Mello

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

Angela Lansbury

I honestly feel that "Murder, She Wrote" stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it's still on. It's still all over the world, "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher and "Murder, She Wrote."

Angela Davis

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

Anne Perry

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Anne Rice

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

Anne Rice

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt

Anna Freud

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Anita Brookner

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Clay Shirky

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Clayton Christensen

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Clayton Christensen

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Daniel Kahneman

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Daniel Kahneman

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

D. J. MacHale

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

D. H. Lawrence

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

D. H. Lawrence

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

D. H. Lawrence

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

D. H. Lawrence

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

Conrad Hilton

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

Claire Tomalin

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

Claire Tomalin

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years.

Clarence Darrow

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.

Danny Masterson

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.

Daniel Cudmore

If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

Daniel D. Palmer

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

Daniel Dennett

An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.

Daniel Dennett

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.

David Coverdale

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.