Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

Chuck Grassley

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

Chuck Klosterman

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Chuck D.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

Christopher Paolini

Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.

Christopher Paolini

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

Christopher Paolini

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

Christopher Paolini

I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

Christopher Moore

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Christopher Moore

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

Angelina Jolie

I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.

Angelina Jolie

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

Angelina Jolie

No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

Andrei Codrescu

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

Ally Condie

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

Ally Condie

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Anthony de Mello

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

Angela Lansbury

I honestly feel that "Murder, She Wrote" stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it's still on. It's still all over the world, "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher and "Murder, She Wrote."

Angela Davis

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

Anne Perry

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Anne Rice

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

Anne Rice

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt

Anna Freud

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Anita Brookner

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Andre Weil

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

Andrea Arnold

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

Andre Maurois

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

Andrew Flintoff

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

Ambrose Bierce

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Ambrose Bierce

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

Ambrose Bierce

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

Anthony Kiedis

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.