Ago Quotes

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

Staying relevant is key. When you're telling your story, you better have a modern story to tell. If I was still saying the same story I was saying 10 years ago, it would not be that interesting.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.

We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.