Top 1200 Worrying About The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought them about.Forgiveness honors the heart's greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love.Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.

If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.

We need to think about the future, not the past.

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

I don't like talking past the next game. It's never served me right in the past.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.

I do enjoy talking about how everything's changed and I'm fascinated by it, and I can spend my time worrying, like, "Are we going to appeal to teens?" But then, if I were to try to make a record for teens, I'd be doing exactly what I said I didn't want to do. That'd be posturing. And I'm watching other people trying to do that, and they all look stupid. But for some of them, it's working, so cash in.

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

We're not all equal as far as intelligence is concerned. We're not equal as far as size. We're not all equal as far as appearance. We do not all have the same opportunities. We're not born in the same environments, but we're all absolutely equal in having the opportunity to make the most of what we have and not comparing or worrying about what others have.

One thing about the past. It's likely to last.

Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.

Things past redress are now with me past care

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Something you need to do three times a day, seven days a week, and something you need to stop worrying about. If [kids] don't know how to cook, they go to junk, and then the junk becomes addictive, and then all of a sudden they're left with no choice.

There's a Dar Williams song about 'houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about other generations past who used to use that dripping sink.' I was one of those kids.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

That's what drives me on, being frightened to fail. The past is in the past. I never think I'm safe.

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.