Past Quotes

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.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

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.

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.

It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.