A Quote by Neal A. Maxwell

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

Neal A. Maxwell

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Future Held Hostage Past

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Neal A. Maxwell
American - Priest
July 6, 1926 - July 21, 2004

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

LL Cool J

Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

Nick Hanauer

We are being held hostage by the people we elect.

Dede Gardner

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

Herman Melville

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

Craig Groeschel

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

Peter Maurer

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

Robert Griffin III

In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.

Marv Wolfman

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

William Hurt

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.

George Hickenlooper

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

Gerald Jampolsky

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

Dalai Lama

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.