Past Quotes

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

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.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.