“what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything… — Niki Lauda Copy Share Image
I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study… — Lloyd Grove Copy Share Image
When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I made my first film McLibel independently but only by accident. I tried to get a commission from all the standard TV… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach,… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I had past managers telling me that I have to stream 8 or 10 hours every single day. And that just doesn't… — Pokimane Copy Share Image
Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action.… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When I was a student, I was dressed like a modern girl and I wore long shorts. That is part of the… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings.… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image