Past Quotes

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that's an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we've been preparing in the past.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I'm attracted to the past.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.