Past Quotes

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.