Quotes About Wishing You Could Change The Past

#1. The fact is it happened. It's over now. I do not live my life constantly wishing that I could change the past.

Jaycee Dugard

#2. When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

S.E. Hinton

#3. We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing. It's our actions, Tara, not our thoughts.

Jennifer McMahon

#4. She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.

Bob Seger

#5. To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture
how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Roger L'Estrange

#6. When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

George Carey

#7. Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B.F. Skinner

#8. It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.
'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'
They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.

Oliver Bowden

#9. You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are - start there.

A.M. Homes

#10. Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not ... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

#11. You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so ...

Michelle Moran

#12. Don't waste your life wishing things had been different. Change the now.

J.M. Madden

#13. Yes, but one cannot prevent change simply by wishing it not to happen,

Katherine Addison

#14. Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#15. Change is constant, and we have to evolve or we wind up bitter and resentful, wishing to be with ghosts instead of the living.

Nancy K. Duplechain

#16. Talent is often a defect in character.

Karl Kraus

#17. I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

Michael Wolf

#18. In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

Ingrid Newkirk

#19. I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

Lemmy Kilmister

#20. Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

Lysa TerKeurst

#21. This is life. This is what happens when you stop living in the moment. People grow up. They change, they move on, and you find yourself wishing you had looked up in time to walk with them.

Claire Contreras

#22. What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

Jim Rohn

#23. We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

Stephen Richards

#24. like an idiot pitching change into a well that nobody ever said was open for wishing.

Kathleen Rooney

#25. The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Elizabeth Scott

#26. Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

Alexander McCall Smith

#27. One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

Steve Goodier

#28. I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

Todd English

#29. The whole point of wishing is not to focus on what you don't have it's to show you what could be. Once you know what you want then you know what to reach for what to dream about. It's how you change things.

Lisa Mangum

#30. The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Dalai Lama

#31. When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

William Safire

#32. My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

Steve Maraboli

#33. I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself ... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore

Michelle Hodkin

#34. What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do.

Steve Berry

#35. There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

George Gillespie

#36. No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that dosen't mean you deserve it. I wake up everyday wishing I could change things, but I can't change past. All I can do is change the future.

E.M. Youman

#37. The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.

Wayne Dyer

#38. And occasionally a sweet chestnut. Miss Honey, wishing to change the subject for the moment, gave the names of all these to Matilda and taught her how to recognize them by the shape of their leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks. Matilda took all this

Roald Dahl

#39. When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change.
When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

J.R. Rim

#40. I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.

Francois Fenelon

#41. Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous.

Dave Keuning