Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eminem

Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground

Elvis Costello

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Elvis Costello

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.

Jay Asher

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

Jawaharlal Nehru

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

Jasper Fforde

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

Jason Newsted

The past is where its supposed to be.

Hilary Swank

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

Hilary Swank

I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their stories and talk about things you'd like to see happen in the world. That's what we do.

Hippocrates

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.

Herbert Read

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Herbert Marcuse

In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Everett Dirksen

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

Evgeny Morozov

In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

Evelyn Waugh

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Eugene Jarecki

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Esther Dyson

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

Esther Hicks

There is nothing that is happening because of something you vibrated a long time ago or in a past life. It is not about what you were born into. It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting.

Esther Hicks

I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

Esther Hicks

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

Ernest Hemingway

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Ethel Merman

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

Jez Butterworth

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Jhumpa Lahiri

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

Graham Hancock

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

Giovanni Boccaccio

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Giovanni Ribisi

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

Gil Gerard

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

Harriet Martineau

The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...