Past Quotes

What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.