Past Quotes

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.