Past Quotes

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

I don't care about the past.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

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.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.