Old Baggage Quotes

#1. You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.

Patrick Read Johnson

#2. You know, sometimes a thing, a system, a creation grows so old, and corrupt, and weighed down by its own baggage, that all you can do is change it. Move on. Start afresh. It's frightening, but it has to be done.

Philip Reeve

#3. An honest smile is an icebreaker.

Toba Beta

#4. Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#6. I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

Laozi

#8. Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

Howard Schultz

#9. A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

Michael Mosley

#10. This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule, all barely secured with twine.

Amy Cohen

#11. I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

Jack Valenti

#12. Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

Jan Schakowsky

#13. There are some people you officially fall in love with, within seconds of meeting them.

Zoe Sugg

#14. For a fifteen-year-old who doesn't even shave yet, you're sure carrying a lot of baggage around.

Haruki Murakami

#15. The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#16. It must be eight years since I last saw Joseph Taboys. How pleasant it would be to meet his jovial face again, to clasp his strong hand, and to hear his cheery laugh once more! He owes me 14 shillings, too.

Jerome K. Jerome

#17. With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Judith Guest

#18. The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set ... I live in a complete state of grace.

Peter Weller

#19. In a while he would make the necessary notes, describing the only known cure for Vitriol: an awareness of life.

Paulo Coelho