Past Quotes

I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

My past is a bit checkered.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.