Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Mancuso

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

Joseph Simmons

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

Nelson A. Miles

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Neil Turok

There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

Neil Young

I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

Neil Young

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

Rachel Joyce

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

R. Lee Ermey

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

Mike Huckabee

Well I'm sure now that the press is going to tell you (Mitt Romney) isn't perfect. Now my friends for the past four years, we've tried the one that the press thought was perfect and that hasn't worked out all that well for us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

Neville Chamberlain

Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.

Newt Gingrich

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Nhat Hanh

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

Nhat Hanh

Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.

Nhat Hanh

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

Nhat Hanh

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

Nhat Hanh

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Noam Chomsky

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ...

John Ashbery

We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

John Ashbery

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

Joe Strummer

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

Joe Montana

I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.

Joe Montana

I don't live in the past.

Joe Meno

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

Jodi Picoult

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

Jodi Picoult

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

Jodi Picoult

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Jodi Picoult

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

John Grisham

I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

John Green

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

John Green

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.