Past Quotes

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.