Past Quotes
I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.
I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.
I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.
The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now.
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.
We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.
It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.
In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.
Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?
You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.
A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.
We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.
I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.
You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.
A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.