Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.
Jeff Foxworthy

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Ulysses S. Grant

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
Dane Cook

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine Greer

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Robert Benchley

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh