Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nas

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

Monica Seles

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

Mircea Eliade

Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being.

Miranda Kerr

I must have been a koala in my past life.

Mignon McLaughlin

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Johnny Mathis

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

John Wooden

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

John Wooden

Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.

John Wooden

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

John Quincy Adams

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

Matt Holliday

You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.

Maya Angelou

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

Maya Angelou

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

Maya Angelou

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Maxim Gorky

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Maxim Gorky

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

Maxim Gorky

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Maxim Gorky

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Max de Pree

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

Matthew Perry

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Mark Shields

In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.

Marina Abramovic

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

Marina Abramovic

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Marilynne Robinson

The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.

Marilynne Robinson

The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in itself. Poetry, at least traditionally, has been an educing of the beauty of language, the beauty of experience, the beauty of the working of the mind, and so on. The pastor does, indeed, appreciate it.

Mary Webb

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Mary Webb

We are tomorrow's past.

Patricia Highsmith

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.

Patricia Briggs

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Paddy Considine

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.