I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
~By Eva Gabor ~
It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
~By Andy Summers ~
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
~By Louise J. Kaplan ~
I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.
~By Marie Osmond ~
There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.
~By Mel Torme ~
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
~By Amy Lowell ~
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
~By Al Gore ~
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
~By John Thorn ~
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
The best prophet of the future is the past.
~By George Byron ~
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.
~By Norm Dicks ~
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 ~
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
~By Marie de France ~
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.
~By Paul Reiser ~
I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.
~By Rod Steiger ~
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
~By Manmohan Singh ~
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
~By Jacques Delors ~
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.
~By Michael Schenker ~
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
~By Heath Ledger ~
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
~By Samuel Dash ~
And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
~By Andy Griffith ~
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
~By Fred Rogers ~
Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
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 ~
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
~By John Corigliano ~
I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.
~By Harry Hamlin ~
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
~By Ernest Gaines ~
Call us the future from your past.
~By Fred Schneider ~
The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
~By John LaFarge ~
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
~By John Osborne ~
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
~By William Gurnall ~
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
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.
~By Tiffeny Milbrett ~
When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.
~By Andy Taylor ~
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
~By Jung Chang ~
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
~By Pierre Laval ~
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
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 ~
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
~By Gyorgy Ligeti ~
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
~By Letitia Landon ~
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
~By Eddie Campbell ~
You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
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 ~
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
~By Robert Smithson ~
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
~By Julien Benda ~
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
~By Penelope Lively ~
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
~By Errol Morris ~
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
~By Joan Chen ~
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
~By Catherine Crowe ~
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, 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 ~
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
~By A. J. P. Taylor ~
Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
~By John Sheffield ~
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
~By Frank Knight ~
We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
~By John Eaton ~
Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
~By Mark McGwire ~
Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.
~By Michael McCaul ~
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
~By James Thurber ~
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 ~
In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.
~By Tony Iommi ~
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
~By Story Musgrave ~
The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
~By Ken Hensley ~
Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
~By David Duchovny ~
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
~By Juan Cole ~
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
~By Victor Davis Hanson ~
We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.
~By John Walters ~
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.
~By Taye Diggs ~
Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
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 ~
I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
~By Warren Beatty ~
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
~By William James ~
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
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