Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

Mahatma Gandhi

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

Fred Upton

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

Frank McCourt

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...

Han Suyin

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

Graydon Carter

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Graydon Carter

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The past is not what it was.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

John Dryden

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

John Dryden

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Maynard Keynes

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

John Maynard Keynes

The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future

John Lewis

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

John Barth

My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!

John Banville

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Jim Palmer

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

Jim Rohn

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

Jim Rohn

Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

Jim Rohn

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.

Jim Rohn

Use your past as one of your mentors.

Jim Rohn

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

Jim Rohn

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

George Lucas

Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

George MacDonald

Past tears are present strength.

Emily Post

People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

Elliott Abrams

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Ellen Hopkins

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

Ellen Hopkins

Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.

Ellen Hopkins

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.