Past Quotes

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

But that in and of itself this past year was not a factor in what I did for the national team every time I stepped out there, or in training, or when I stepped out there in the WUSA.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

The past is where its supposed to be.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.