Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bear Grylls

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

August Strindberg

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

Arnold Bennett

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Arnold Palmer

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?

Denis O'Hare

We see images of people being beheaded on TV. That's not a thing that you see all the time. That's a different kind of scary. Unfortunately, some of the scary stuff is political, and that's a change from our past.

Denis Waitley

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

Denis Waitley

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Deborah Harkness

Remember the past - and await the future.

Bill Nye

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

Bill Nye

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

Beryl Bainbridge

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Carolyn Wells

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Alan Shepard

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

Cheryl Richardson

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Charlie Munger

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

Charlie Munger

A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

Charles Frazier

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

Bob Parsons

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

Billy Zane

I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.

Bill Belichick

To live in the past is to die in the present.

Byron Katie

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Cary Grant

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Camille Paglia

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

Casey Kasem

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

Casey Stengel

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

Carl Hiaasen

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Diana Gabaldon

This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was - was it only the exhaustion of the past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?

Deepak Chopra

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

Deepak Chopra

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Deepak Chopra

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.