Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

Vince Clarke

When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really.

Vince Cable

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

Viggo Mortensen

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.

Victoria Azarenka

I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.

Victor Davis Hanson

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

Victor Hugo

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

Victor Hugo

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Vernon Davis

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.

Vernon Lee

... there is no end to the deceits of the past ...

Robert Fulghum

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

Robert Bly

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

Richard von Weizsaecker

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

Richard Trumka

In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.

Richard Marx

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

Richard Matheson

How long did it take for a past to die?

Thomas Holcroft

The past is only a guidepost... not a hitching post.

Timothy Geithner

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

Timothy Geithner

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

Timothy Garton Ash

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

Timothy Leary

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.

Samantha Stosur

You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.

Rumi

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Rumi

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

Rumi

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

Rumi

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

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.

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.