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“Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.”

Action Past Future Majors Longing Factors Appropriate Fear Of The Future

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.”

May God Past Nations Revelations Bloody Thrill Dross Sod

Author:Robert Haven Schauffler

“April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.”

Knows Years Two Past Young Girl Week Months Six Two Years Fleeting Six Months April Two Weeks Lambs Kitten Ribbons Two Year Olds

Author:Gladys Hasty Carroll

“The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.”

Has Beens Past Given Future Built Our Past

Book:Sing Out the Glory

Source: Sing Out the Glory

“I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.”

Past Remember Desire Fear Imagine Future Timeless Remembering The Past

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“... it isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past -- are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down -- but I can't stay there.”

Long I Can Today Past Challenges Cry Blessing Yesterday Calamity

Book:The Gay Illiterate

Source: The Gay Illiterate

“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.”

Ifs Years Wells Kind Self Enough School Past Lines Risk Taught Ego Clothes High School Twenties Prepared Lifetime Torture Be Kind Biographies Preservation Flattering Self Preservation Edited

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.”

“Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.”

Book:Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

Source: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

“Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.”

Knows Whole Stories Might Past Steps Judgment Passing Passings Passing Judgment

Book:Past Lives, Present Miracles

Source: Past Lives, Present Miracles

“Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.”

Past Dark Forever Shapes Edges Razors Blur

Book:Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

“The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?”

Needs Past Share Tomorrow Let It Go

Author:Vicki Myron

“We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?”

Past Wish Our Past

Book:City of Stairs

Source: City of Stairs

“I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.”

Thinking Persons Past Actors Emotion Creating Who You Are Secure Portraying

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.”

Firsts Past Blessed Albums Singers

Author:Ruben Studdard

“In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.”

Ifs Men Past One Thing Months Paid Convinced

Author:Judy Greer

“I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.”

Said Done Past Happened Regret Articles Don't Regret Don't Regret Anything

Author:Eva Longoria

“I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.”

Past Lessons Print Private Life Past Relationship

Author:Brittany Murphy

“In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.”

People Said Reality Past Bits Share Media Regret Scent Printing Reluctant Misconception I Regret

Author:Megan Fox

“There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.”

Ifs May Doe Book Past Suffering Reading Parent Answers Generations Baby Offers Instinct Over You Panic Parental Inadequacy Past Generations

Author:Libby Copeland

“Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.”

Thinking Way Children Persons Has Beens Reason Past Beautiful Sides Dark Interesting Abuse Relate Reason Why Furious Outcast Facets Maleficent

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.”

Ends Past Given Acting The End Of The Day

Author:Ben Whishaw

“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.”

Past Opportunity Names Behinds Products Careful Items Evaluate

Author:Bear Grylls

“The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.”

Years Past Three Moved Three Years Moved On

Author:Craig Kilborn

“...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.”

Thinking Knows Said War Past Term Steps Boys Calling Gay Civil War Civilized Imperfect Sixty Polite Strife Riot Marble Waitress Baltimore Wince Scott Fitzgerald During The Civil War

Author:Laura Lippman

“In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.”

Past Next Found Illness Cures Hopeful Dependence Prescriptions Medication Slippery Slopes Slippery Slope

Author:Carre Otis

“Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.”

Years Kids School Past Opportunity Childhood Habit Very Good Holiday Candy Doing Nothing Utopia Bedtime Unlearn Good Habits

Book:Dad Is Fat

Source: Dad Is Fat

“I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.”

People Knows Want Happens Past Issues Vulnerable Flaws Past And Present

Author:Tim Gunn

“I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.”

Would Be Past Roles Drama My Past Comedic

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.”

Ifs Knows Want Past Situation Happened Decided Horrible

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!”

“... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.”

Past Form Response Confession Prompts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.”

Past Joy Sorrow Companion Perpetual Joys And Sorrows

Book:The George Eliot Letters: 1878-1880

Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1878-1880

“At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.”

Mind Ends Past Spirit Impossible Shining Height Thoughts On Life End Of Life

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.”

Thinking Past Dies Wise Stupid Stupid Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.”

Ifs Made Past Time Thread Warp Future Time

Book:A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

“O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.”

Past Given Prayer Lord Comfort Late Gentle Too Late Execution Pardon

Book:King Henry VIII: Third Series

Source: King Henry VIII: Third Series

“The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]”

Past Memories Trouble Pleasant

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.”

Past Purpose Worthy Rational Progression Times Past

Book:Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed

Source: Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed

“Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.”

Trying Past Design Failure Vain Complaints Morrow Another Time

Book:Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.”

Past Political Politics Wonder Reign

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Rambler vol. 1-3

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Rambler vol. 1-3

“Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.”

Mind States Past Desire Sorrow Fixed Looking Forward Looking Forward To The Future

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.”

Made Ends Problem Past Turns Choices Fighting Clear Towns Corruption Halls Voters

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]”

Author:George Herbert

“Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.”

Lasts Past Politics Politician

Author:Alexander Pope

“Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.”

Way Kids Past Surprise Best Way

Author:James Van Der Beek

“Ive never had to fight hard for anything Ive gotten in the past.”

Hard Past Fighting

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of 'Bringing Out the Dead' and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.”

Ideas Action Past Fall Security Havens Strange Silent Producers No Idea Categories Strange Things Mime

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.”

Knows Want Past Young Fans New Music

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.”

Want Past Next Left Old Lady Beyonce Decrepit

Author:Lulu