Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Vladimir Putin

At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government. I'm talking about something else right now - when someone does this, the outcome is very negative. Libya's state is disintegrated, Iraq's territory is flooded with terrorists, it looks like the scenario will be the same for Syria, and you know what the situation is in Afghanistan.

William Glasser

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

William Graham Sumner

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.

William H. Gass

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

William Golding

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

Wilhelm Keitel

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

Warren Zevon

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

Wassily Kandinsky

Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation...

Wassily Kandinsky

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

Walter Lippmann

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Walter Lippmann

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

William Styron

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

Wilkie Collins

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Walter Ulbricht

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

Walter Wriston

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine,

Walter Savage Landor

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Walter Dean Myers

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Vladimir Putin

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.

William Kingdon Clifford

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.