Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael K. Simpson

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

Marianne Williamson

There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

Marianne Williamson

Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.

Marianne Williamson

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

Marianne Williamson

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

Marianne Williamson

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

Marianne Williamson

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.

Marianne Williamson

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

Marianne Williamson

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

Mario Lemieux

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

Mario Lemieux

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

Mario Cuomo

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Frank Ocean

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

Frank O'Hara

And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.

Frank O'Hara

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

George Catlin

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

Christina Aguilera

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

Christian Marclay

It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

Christian Lacroix

I am not nostalgic for the past.

Chris Rock

I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting... You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass... It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes.

Chris Noth

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

Germaine Greer

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

Hayao Miyazaki

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

Harry Hamlin

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

George Washington

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

George Santayana

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

G. Stanley Hall

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

G. M. Trevelyan

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.