Past Quotes

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Just as you choose to get up every day, go to your job, and drive the same car, you decide how much of an impact your past has on you - today.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.