Past Quotes

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 would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

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.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.