Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Kurzweil

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

Ray Kurzweil

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Ray Comfort

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

Rajneesh

Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.

Rajneesh

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Rajneesh

Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.

Rajneesh

Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live

Rajneesh

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

Rajneesh

This mind goes on continuing. This mind will go on continuing, unless you become aware. And this is a miracle: that the moment you become aware the continuity is broken. Now you will be, but not of the past. Now you will be of the moment - fresh, young, new. Now each moment you will die, and you will be reborn.

Thomas Jefferson

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

Thomas Jefferson

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Robert Herjavec

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

Robert Higgs

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.

Robert Hass

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

Robert Hass

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

Robert Herrick

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

Robert Herrick

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

Robert Henri

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

Rick Riordan

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

Vera Wang

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

Venus Williams

I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past.

Vance Packard

In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

Valerie June

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

Valerie Bertinelli

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

Ulysses S. Grant

One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished. I have frequently started to go places where I had never been and to which I did not know the way, depending upon making inquiries on the road, and if I got past the place without knowing it, instead of turning back, I would go until a road was found turning in the right direction, take that, and come in by the other side.

Robin Wright

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Robin Wasserman

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Robin G. Collingwood

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

Robin Hobb

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Robin Hobb

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Robert Nozick

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Robert Musil

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.

Robbie Coltraine

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.