Past Quotes
Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.
Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.
The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
You don’t forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.
The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.
It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.
I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.