Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

Saint Augustine

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Saint Augustine

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

Saint Augustine

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

Yannick Noah

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

Wislawa Szymborska

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

Winston Churchill

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

William Vickrey

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

Will Self

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

Will Self

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

Will Self

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

Will Rogers

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Will Oldham

You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.

Warren Farrell

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

Warren Farrell

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

Warren Farrell

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

Warren Farrell

In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit... In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

Zadie Smith

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zahi Hawass

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

Zack de la Rocha

Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now controls the past Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now?

Yvonne Craig

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

Yvon Chouinard

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

Ze Frank

Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that are gonna warm up my ass

Zainab Salbi

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

Zayn Malik

I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

Ziggy Marley

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

Zhuangzi

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

Zhuangzi

Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it...

Sarah Kay

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

Sara Shepard

Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.

Sara Shepard

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it

Sandra Tsing Loh

Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.