Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Krugman

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

Paul Dickson

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Patrick Swayze

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

John Sebastian

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

Mark Strong

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

Mark Spitz

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

Mark Strand

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

Mark Steyn

So there was President Obama giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that 'now is the hour when we must seize the moment,' the same moment he's been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

Nicole Kidman

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Moses

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

Ozzy Osbourne

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me ...

Ozzy Osbourne

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

Ovid

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

Ovid

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

Ovid

Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.

Paul Pierce

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.

Paul Eldridge

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Paul Feig

I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

Paul Bettany

People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what story I am allowed to tell. Having been working with the homeless for the past years, I noticed lots of things about them, but one thing I really noticed was that they were probably too busy just getting though the day to make a film about themselves.

Matthew Fox

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

Matthew Fox

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Marya Hornbacher

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

Mary J. Blige

I like what I see when I’m looking at me when I’m walking past the mirror,

Martha Graham

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

Martha Beck

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

Marshall McLuhan

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Marshall McLuhan

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

Oswald Chambers

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

Paul Samuelson

In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Paul Arden

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Pat Benatar

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.