To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
~By Henry Rollins ~
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
~By Boyle Roche ~
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
~By Mariah Carey ~
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
~By Ralph Neas ~
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
~By Vladimir Horowitz ~
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
~By Ernest Gaines ~
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
~By Della Reese ~
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.
~By Mark Foley ~
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations.
~By Larry Graham ~
In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
~By Dennis Kucinich ~
In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
~By Richard Marx ~
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
~By Arthur Baer ~
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
~By Ethel Merman ~
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
~By Cary Grant ~
Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.
~By Mohammed Aldouri ~
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
~By Neil LaBute ~
Call us the future from your past.
~By Fred Schneider ~
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
~By David Brin ~
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
~By Jet Li ~
Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
~By Richard King ~
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
~By Laura Linney ~
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
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 ~
One faces the future with one's past.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
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.
~By Edna Ferber ~
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
~By William P. Leahy ~
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
~By Samuel Butler ~
All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.
~By Alvar N. C. de Vaca ~
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
~By Yannick Noah ~
And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.
~By Chris Christie ~
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
~By Camille Paglia ~
The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
~By Mimi Rogers ~
I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.
~By Meredith Brooks ~
I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.
~By Columba Bush ~
Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
~By Fay Wray ~
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
~By Curt Flood ~
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.
~By Robert Matsui ~
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
~By John Sladek ~
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
~By Robert Farrar Capon ~
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
~By Jack Klugman ~
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
~By Marie de France ~
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
~By Stockwell Day ~
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
~By Henri Matisse ~
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
~By Louis Kahn ~
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
~By Ron Silver ~
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
~By Leon Kass ~
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
~By David Edward Jenkins ~
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~By Bob Hope ~
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.
~By Jensen Ackles ~
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.
~By Ron Chernow ~
If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
~By Philip Roth ~
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
What is past is prologue.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
~By Chuck Close ~
So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!
~By Michael East ~
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
~By Daniel Patrick Moynihan ~
Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
~By John LaFarge ~
In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
~By Beck ~
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
~By Matt Lauer ~
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
~By Edgar Quinet ~
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
~By Susan Griffin ~
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
~By Felix Adler ~
I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
~By Tyra Banks ~
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
~By Joichi Ito ~
Even God cannot change the past.
~By Agathon ~
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
~By Virginia Satir ~
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
~By David Bohm ~
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
~By Abraham Cowley ~
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
~By Jack Henry Abbott ~
When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
~By William Least Heat Moon ~
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 ~
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
~By Dan Quayle ~
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
~By Nikolai Gogol ~
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
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