Past Quotes

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.