Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Kennedy

When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

Ronnie Dunn

I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Ronda Rousey

I thought that I was mutant somehow. I eventually realized that I have a very natural look, and that's what God gave me, and I'm proud of it. It was kind of a way for me to get past that as well.

Ron Chernow

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

Tyler Perry

You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

Truman Capote

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Rhonda Byrne

When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise. When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.

Rick Warren

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

Rick Warren

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

Rick Warren

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Pankaj Mishra

When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems.

Paracelsus

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.

Ovid

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

Otto Frank

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

P. C. Cast

Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!

P. C. Cast

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

P. C. Cast

We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

Paul McCartney

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

Paul McCartney

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

Patton Oswalt

Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

Peter Greenaway

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

Paulette Goddard

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

Paule Marshall

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Paullina Simons

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

Pauline Kael

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

Paul Valery

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Meher Baba

As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out in sparks, as it were . . . all the impressions of the past, the accumulations of past sanskaras - of all illusory things, which includes both good and bad - come out. My proximity, the intimacy with Me, just changes that mass of sanskaras, and sometimes you find sparks of good and bad flying out.