Past Quotes

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Past is past.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.