Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Davis

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Warren Cuccurullo

I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

Warren Ellis

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

Warren Buffett

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

Warren Buffett

It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial...

Warren Buffett

The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

Warren Buffett

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

Vladimir Horowitz

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Will Oldham

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

Will Oldham

I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future." When you're recording something, you're making something that will exist in the future.

Will Oldham

I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.

Wayne Dyer

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

Wayne Dyer

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.

Wayne Dyer

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.

Wayne Dyer

Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

Wayne Dyer

There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

Wayne Dyer

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

Walter Benjamin

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

Virginia Woolf

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Virginia Woolf

She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

Virginia Woolf

With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

Virginia Woolf

for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;

William Bernbach

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

William Blake

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

Werner Erhard

Create your future from your future, not your past.

Wayne Shorter

Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.

Walker Percy

A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.

Wallace Stegner

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Wallace Stevens

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

Samuel Butler

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

Samuel Beckett

What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.