Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth McGovern

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

Edwin Land

The present is the past biting into the future.

Ben Bernanke

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

Barbara Tuchman

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

Arthur Eddington

There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

Arthur Golden

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Bill Goldberg

The relationship with WWE obviously has gotten better because after my name has been shoved down their throats from 2K [Games] for the past years, they finally passed off on it. They finally okayed it.

Berenice Abbott

Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.

Bob Odenkirk

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

Lloyd McClendon

Over the past 15 years, it's been a wonderful ride, ... I'll always be a Pirate at heart." ()

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Samuel Butler

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

Sylvia Kristel

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.

We're doing nothing different than we have done in the past weeks. We've talked about what it takes to win. We're going to use our God-given talents and prepare mentally, and we're just going to go out and have fun.

Tom Ridge

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

Dennis Franchione

We didn't have a power back in the past quite like him.

Aberjhani

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Aberjhani

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

A. J. P. Taylor

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

A. R. Ammons

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

A. B. Yehoshua

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. A. Milne

That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

Aeschylus

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Adrienne Rich

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

Agatha Christie

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

Adrian Rogers

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.