Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Quayle

I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.

Dan Quayle

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

Cynthia Ozick

What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

Daphne Guinness

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

Dar Williams

I have a sordid past.

Daniel Pauly

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

Dan Millman

. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

Corliss Lamont

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

Cormac McCarthy

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Columba Bush

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

Colum McCann

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

Clifford D. Simak

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe

Cliff Martinez

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

Conan O'Brien

The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

E. V. Lucas

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

Dwight Yoakam

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Dwyane Wade

Yes, it's true - I love the roar of the crowd. When the fans are with you, their voices come together in a big booming rush of sound that you can actually feel in your body - almost like a wave that lifts you and carries you past your own limits.

Courtney Love

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

William Faulkner

The past is never forgotten; it's never even past

Sean Kelly

The players we have are already past a lot of other players in terms of development. A lot of us have already been playing together for years (with clubs).

We've got to do whatever we have to do and work past it.

Louis C. K.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

Neil Patrick Harris

As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.

Orson Scott Card

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

Ram Dass

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

We can't look past nobody. That's probably what we did tonight.

We can't look in the past now. All we can do is go back and practice, try to improve.

Shelden Williams

We can't look back and say we only went past the Sweet 16 one time. This is a different team, and this is a team that we think can do something special.

We collaborated over the past two years and shaped the show.

Julian Barnes

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Kurt Vonnegut

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.