Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gaskell

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual.

John Corigliano

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

John Burns

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

John Burroughs

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

Joel Osteen

I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past.

Joel Osteen

I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.

Joel Osteen

No matter what you've gone through in the past, no matter how many setbacks you've suffered or who or what has tried to thwart your progress, today is a new day, and God wants to do a new thing in your life.

Linda Lingle

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

Lil Wayne

If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid

Lil Wayne

My future will be better than my past.

Leo Tolstoy

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Leo Tolstoy

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Leo Tolstoy

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

Leo Tolstoy

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Leslie Nielsen

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

Leo Strauss

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

Leo Rosten

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

Lawrence Lessig

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

Lawrence Lessig

Freedom is about stopping the past.

Lawrence Lessig

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Lawrence Lessig

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

Lawrence Lessig

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Lauren Groff

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

Larry Niven

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

Larry Niven

Any damn fool can predict the past.

Larry McMurtry

For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

Lady Gaga

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

Joyce Meyer

Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future.

Joyce Meyer

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Joseph Wood Krutch

We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

Joseph Stiglitz

There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.

Joseph Heller

The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.