Past Quotes

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'

Composers are always going back to the past.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.