“There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday;… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended, stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owner's… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I'm probably less serious about my game than I was in the past. I've lost a brother and father in the past… — Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
That's not a convincing argument. Public sector jobs are cyclical. Teachers get fired when money is tight, then rehired when things get… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
While the past asks only to be remembered, a woman's memory alters on her behalf and in her best interests. Memory -… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed… — James Agee Copy Share Image
It's tough to have a guy - not hinting at anything; it wasn't anything in the past - but when coaches are… — Davante Adams Copy Share Image
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Before I drop in, I tend to knock on my snowboard. You know how when you jinx yourself, they're like, 'Knock on… — Chloe Kim Copy Share Image
One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75… — Gerard Arpey Copy Share Image
The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European,… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will prosper, hope that once again we will reap… — Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We had an airplane, a Beechcraft Baron, that we - I had since 1981. And Annie [Glenn] and I both of had… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image