The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
~By Robert Smithson ~
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
~By George Orwell ~
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
~By Adolf Loos ~
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 ~
But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.
~By Rick Allen ~
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 ~
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
~By Dean Koontz ~
At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.
~By Martin Fleischmann ~
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
~By Robert Frost ~
I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.
~By Michael Lewis ~
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
~By Georg Solti ~
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
~By Edward M. Purcell ~
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 ~
Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.
~By Bill Toomey ~
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 ~
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
~By Steven Squyres ~
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
~By Alan Dundes ~
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 ~
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
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 ~
Few great men would have got past personnel.
~By Paul Goodman ~
As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
~By Judy Holliday ~
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
~By Marie Louise ~
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
~By Annie Lennox ~
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
~By Robert Smithson ~
The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
~By Len Wein ~
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 ~
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
~By Michael Chabon ~
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 ~
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
~By Frederick Jackson Turner ~
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
~By Ron Reagan ~
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 ~
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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.
~By Ken Burns ~
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.
~By Puff Daddy ~
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
~By Leslie Caron ~
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.
~By Mike Lookinland ~
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
~By Wavy Gravy ~
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
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.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
~By Vera Wang ~
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
~By Douglas Horton ~
We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
~By Julian Bond ~
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
~By John Cage ~
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 ~
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
~By Jackie Chan ~
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
~By Ang Lee ~
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 book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
~By Anita Desai ~
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.
~By Steve Buyer ~
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 have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
~By George Catlin ~
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
~By Vince Gill ~
The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
~By John LaFarge ~
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
~By Richard Roeper ~
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
~By Fidel Castro ~
And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.
~By William E. Geist ~
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
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 ~
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
~By Hermann Oberth ~
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 ~
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
~By Robert Nozick ~
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.
~By Brownie McGhee ~
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 ~
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
~By Yannick Noah ~
I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.
~By Meredith Brooks ~
Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past.
~By Thad Cochran ~
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 ~
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
~By Jung Chang ~
She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.
~By Michael Ende ~
You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
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 ~
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
~By Tony Visconti ~
My life is not just about the past.
~By Jeannette Walls ~
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 ~
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