For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~By Albert Claude ~
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
~By Chi Chi Rodriguez ~
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
~By Nick Nolte ~
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
~By Doris Kearns Goodwin ~
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
~By Linda Lingle ~
The past is but the past of a beginning.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
~By Bill Bruford ~
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
~By Mario Cuomo ~
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
~By George Orwell ~
Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
~By Courtney Love ~
I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
~By Charlize Theron ~
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
~By Ruth J. Simmons ~
I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
~By Bill Cosby ~
I don't like to dwell on the past.
~By Tina Turner ~
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?
~By Winona Ryder ~
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
~By Charles Rangel ~
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
~By Nick Lampson ~
I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.
~By Mark McGwire ~
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
~By Jim Bishop ~
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
~By John Webster ~
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.
~By Shane Warne ~
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
~By Andre Agassi ~
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
~By Brad Paisley ~
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
~By Simone Weil ~
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.
~By Elvis Costello ~
So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.
~By Danny Elfman ~
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
~By Robert Nozick ~
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
~By Bob Greene ~
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.
~By Diana Ross ~
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
~By John Acton ~
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
~By John Walters ~
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
~By Sarah Brightman ~
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
~By David Del Tredici ~
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
~By David McCullough ~
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
~By Frederick Henry Hedge ~
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.
~By Henry Villard ~
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
~By Yancy Butler ~
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
~By John Joly ~
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
~By William Morris ~
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
~By Yannick Noah ~
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
~By George Lucas ~
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
~By Barney Oliver ~
Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
~By Bob Ney ~
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
~By George Santayana ~
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
~By Bobby Scott ~
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
~By William Bernbach ~
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
~By Walter Salles ~
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
~By Nick Park ~
That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
~By Jim Walton ~
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
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.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.
~By Jo Bonner ~
When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
~By Oliver Stone ~
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
~By Erich Fromm ~
I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
~By David Wilkerson ~
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
~By Julie Andrews ~
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
~By Don Henley ~
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
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