Robert Plant Quotes

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Past
  • Obstacles

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Past
  • Really
  • Obsessed

• I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Past
  • Football
  • Difficult

• The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Self

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

  

  Alberto Salazar
  • Past
  • Die
  • Trust

• If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Past

• I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world.

  

  Antony Burgmans
  • Help
  • Quality
  • Companies

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

  

  Banksy
  • Up
  • World
  • Art

• The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Past