Past Quotes

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

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.

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this.

When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.