Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

Marnie Stern

Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.

Marisha Pessl

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

Marjane Satrapi

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

Mariah Carey

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Megan McCafferty

But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.

Megan McCafferty

I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.

Megan McCafferty

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.

Max Lucado

Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

Max Lucado

God forgets the past... Imitate Him..

Max Lucado

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Max Baucus

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

Maurice Strong

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

Maurice Strong

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

May Sarton

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

May Sarton

Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

Matt Mullenweg

One of the things I’ve been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface,

Mayim Bialik

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

Maya Lin

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

Maynard James Keenan

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

Maya Angelou

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

Matthieu Ricard

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

Matthieu Ricard

At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

Matthieu Ricard

In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.

Marianne Williamson

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

Marianne Williamson

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

Mario Lemieux

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

Mario Lemieux

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

Mario Cuomo

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Merrill Markoe

Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

Merle Shain

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.