Past Quotes

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.