Famous Quotes & Sayings

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Bertrand Russell

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

Tom Ridge

We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance,

William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

William Shakespeare

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.

Avery Johnson

We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

have tended to be slow, reactive, and incremental over the past year.

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

I think in the past week we have already reached new lows.

I thought we've played pretty well the past two games, but we haven't been rewarded for it. We need to find a way to win these types of games.

Whatever it takes, I'm not sure what it's going to take to get past this time where we start winning these games. But we've got to do it soon.

We've been through so much over the past two years and we're ready now.

We took that route twice in the past week.

John Wilson

He had been a very private person up until this past year.

Frank Robinson

He doesn't seem to be as smooth as he was in past years,

I have got to know Paul over the past year or two from trying to pinch his players on loan.

Omar Vizquel

I don't know why that is such an important thing. The past is the past.

Don Cheadle

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

Dmitry Medvedev

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past.

Dmitry Medvedev

We value our relations with Europe, which we have jointly developed over the past decades, and Europe remains our main trading partner. It is my hope that we will normalise these relations in the near future

Djuna Barnes

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Diane Setterfield

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Diane Setterfield

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.

David Brooks

Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.

Darren Shan

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

Dave Chappelle

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

David Selby

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

David Sedaris

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

David Mixner

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.