Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth George

The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.

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.

Julie Andrews

I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.

Judith Hill

I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

Josh Gad

When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.

Katherine Center

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.

Karen Armstrong

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

Karen Armstrong

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

Joyce Meyer

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

Joyce Meyer

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

Joyce Meyer

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Katharine Whitehorn

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

Karen Russell

Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?

Judith Wright

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

Joseph Conrad

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.

Kaskade

It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth.

Leona Lewis

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

Leona Lewis

I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.

Leonard Cohen

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

Lauren Bacall

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

Lauren Bacall

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Lauren Bacall

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Langston Hughes

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

John Keble

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

John D. Barrow

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

John Cusack

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

John Cusack

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

Gayle Forman

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Gayle Forman

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

Gary Cole

Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.