Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Lehane

Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

Denise Van Outen

My past behaviour makes me cringe.

Deepak Chopra

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

Deepak Chopra

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

Deepak Chopra

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

Deepak Chopra

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Deepak Chopra

If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, look at your thoughts today.

Deepak Chopra

Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future.

Deepak Chopra

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

Edward Gibbon

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.

Eben Alexander

To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.

Ed Gillespie

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

Earl Scruggs

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Earl Scruggs

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

Elizabeth Moon

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth Olsen

Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.

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.

William Shakespeare

The past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

Past all shame, so past all truth.

Aasif Mandvi

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Alan Shepard

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

Alan Shearer

If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

Alan Johnson

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

Charlotte Bronte

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Charles Edison

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Dickens

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.