Quotes about past
past gdp liberty
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. Thomas Sowell
past people learn-from-the-past
It seems like people don't learn from the past. Thomas Peterffy
past goal balance
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation. Robert McNamara
past yesterday creative
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. Robert Hewison
past rights long
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . . The time is long past - if indeed it ever existed - when we should permit the noble concept of States' rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights. Robert Kennedy
past land people
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
past make-sense
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past. Robert Harris
past drawing want
And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s; certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep. Robert Barry
past legs problem
I've got a problem with my legs, they just can't walk past a chippy. Ricky Hatton
past thinking years
We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called. Richard M. Nixon
past years america
The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.
past land effort
As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.
past done may
I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.
past odds israel
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.
past mind world
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality. Ric Ocasek
past mind answers
Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons
past bitterness accepting
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life. Rebecca Stead
past brain progress
The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.
past focus odd
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection. Richard Russo
past somewhere-else want
I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.
past ideas perfection
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now. Richard Flanagan
past answers looks
If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible. Rich Mullins
past police information
We have paid the police for information in the past. Rebekah Brooks
past roots people
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? Robert Dale Owen
past men genius
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past. Robert D. Kaplan
past looks way
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be. Robert Carlyle
past bombs down-and
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help. Roald Dahl
past trying architecture
Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. Richard Rogers
past black want
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited. Tupac Shakur
past life-is
Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up. Tamara Ecclestone
past years innovation
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. Sylvia Mathews Burwell
past gold retrospect
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? Sylvia Plath
past achievement fewer
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow