Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saddam Hussein

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland

Rumer Willis

I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

Roxane Gay

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

Roxane Gay

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

Rowan Williams

The past is what the present is doing now.

Ronald Reagan

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

Robert Hughes

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Roddy Woomble

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

Robyn

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

Roberto Bolano

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.

Roberto Bolano

Nothing is ever behind us.

Roberto Bolano

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

Robertson Davies

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

Robertson Davies

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

Robert Palmer

Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.

Robert Penn Warren

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Robert Penn Warren

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

Robert Penn Warren

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Robert M. Pirsig

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Robert Evans

Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.

Robert E. Howard

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Walt Disney

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

Walt Disney

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

Tom Peters

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

Tom Ford

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

Toni Cade Bambara

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

Steve Shaw

We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.

Stephen Covey

Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

Viktor E. Frankl

Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

Viktor E. Frankl

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

Viktor E. Frankl

What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

Vanessa Paradis

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

Vanilla Ice

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.