There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life.
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I am the sum of my past experience. Some people have got a lot to answer for.
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.
Ah, yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it...or learn from it.
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.
Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the tyrants of the present are unleashed.
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)
Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.
Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
