Past Quotes

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.

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Just as you choose to get up every day, go to your job, and drive the same car, you decide how much of an impact your past has on you - today.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?