300 Quotes on Past

• Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• Wisdom is knowing the worth of the past, the possibilities of the present, and the dreams of the future.

  Author: Michelle Chang

• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

  Author: Khaleda Zia

• Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

  Author: Israel Zangwill

• In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

  Author: James Young

• I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

  Author: Angus Young

• The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

  Author: Martin Yan

• The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

  Author: Kristi Yamaguchi

• In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

  Author: Steven Wright

• As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

  Author: Judith Wright

• 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!

  Author: Fay Wray

• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• 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.

  Author: Lee Womack

• And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.

  Author: Lee Womack

• It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

  Author: Terri Windling

• I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

  Author: Tom Wilson

• It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

  Author: Henry Williamson

• I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

  Author: Serena Williams

• How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

  Author: Norbert Wiener

• Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• I do not intend to prejudge the past.

  Author: William Whitelaw

• In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

  Author: Peter Westbrook

• Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  Author: H. Wells

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  Author: H. Wells

• All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

  Author: Richard Weizsaecker

• For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

  Author: Len Wein

• 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.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

  Author: Simone Weil

• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• We are tomorrow's past.

  Author: Mary Webb

• The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

  Author: Mary Webb

• Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Author: Henry Waxman

• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

  Author: William Watson

• Past is past.

  Author: Pete Waterman

• We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

  Author: George Washington

• Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

  Author: Mark Warner

• 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.

  Author: Shane Warne

• 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.

  Author: Vera Wang

• 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.

  Author: Jim Walton

• I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

  Author: Julie Walters

• 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.

  Author: John Walters

• 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.

  Author: John Walters

• So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

  Author: Mika Waltari

• The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

  Author: Murray Walker

• Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

  Author: Murray Walker

• That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

  Author: Murray Walker

• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

  Author: Derek Walcott

• Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• 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.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

  Author: Sol Wachtler

• 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.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  Author: Joan Vinge

• I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.

  Author: Tim Vine

• 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.

  Author: Henry Villard

• Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

  Author: William Vickrey

• In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

  Author: Gianni Versace

• Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  Author: John Updike

• It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• The past has to inform the present.

  Author: John Turturro

• I don't like to dwell on the past.

  Author: Tina Turner

• 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.

  Author: Frederick Turner

• Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

  Author: Dale Turner

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

  Author: Donald Trump

• Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.

  Author: Rachel True

• The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

  Author: David Trimble

• 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.

  Author: David Tredici

• Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

  Author: Robert Towne

• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

  Author: Robert Towne

• 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.

  Author: Mel Torme

• Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

  Author: James Thurber

• Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

  Author: John Thorn

• More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

  Author: John Thorn

• Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

  Author: John Thorn

• As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

  Author: William Thompson

• We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• 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.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

  Author: Vinny Testaverde

• I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

  Author: Studs Terkel

• We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

  Author: Frederick Taylor

• 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.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  Author: A. Taylor

• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  Author: A. Taylor

• In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

  Author: A. Taylor

• I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

  Author: Jeffrey Tambor

• A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  Author: Patrick Swayze

• It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

  Author: Andy Summers

• I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

  Author: Andy Summers

• My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

  Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

• 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.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

  Author: Mark Strong

• If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• 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.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• 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.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

  Author: Bram Stoker

• 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.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  Author: Jackie Stewart

• Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

  Author: Al Stewart

• The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

  Author: John Stevens

• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

  Author: Robert Stern

• I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

  Author: George Stephen

• 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.

  Author: Mattie Stepanek

• 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.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

  Author: Sylvester Stallone

• I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

  Author: Sylvester Stallone

• That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

  Author: Anne Stael

• 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.

  Author: Steven Squyres

• All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

  Author: Steve Spurrier

• My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

  Author: Mickey Spillane

• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

  Author: Sophocles

• Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

  Author: Sophocles

• In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

  Author: Georg Solti

• It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

  Author: Frederick Soddy

• 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.

  Author: Frederick Soddy

• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

  Author: Robert Smith

• Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

  Author: Logan Smith

• The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

  Author: Iain Smith

• Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

  Author: George Smith

• Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

  Author: George Smith

• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Author: Lewis Smedes

• We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

  Author: Christian Slater

• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

  Author: John Sladek

• Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

  Author: Sivananda

• Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

  Author: Manmohan Singh

• The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

  Author: Ashlee Simpson

• 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.

  Author: Ruth Simmons

• And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

  Author: Clifford Simak

• 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.

  Author: Ron Silver

• I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

  Author: Beverly Sills

• The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

  Author: Navjot Sidhu

• Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

  Author: Craig Shirley

• The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch.

  Author: R. Sheppard

• I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

  Author: Rupert Sheldrake

• Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

  Author: John Sheffield

• There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  Author: George Shaw

• What is past is prologue.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• They say miracles are past.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  Author: Idries Shah

• The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

  Author: Hun Sen

• Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

  Author: Hun Sen

• The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

  Author: Bud Selig

• I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

  Author: David Selby

• I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

  Author: John Sebastian

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  Author: Earl Scruggs

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  Author: Walter Scott

• The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

  Author: Paul Scott

• The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

  Author: James Schuyler

• We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

  Author: Gunther Schuller

• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Call us the future from your past.

  Author: Fred Schneider

• This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

  Author: Kyle Schmid

• We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

  Author: Heinrich Schliemann

• National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

  Author: Otto Schily

• But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• 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.

  Author: Michael Schenker

• 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.

  Author: Gerald Scarfe

• The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

  Author: George Savile

• Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

  Author: Virginia Satir

• I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  Author: George Santayana

• 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.

  Author: George Santayana

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  Author: Carlos Santana

• 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.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• 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.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?

  Author: Richie Sambora

• In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

  Author: Walter Salles

• I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.

  Author: Bob Saget

• As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  Author: Karl Rove

• 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.

  Author: Philip Roth

• The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• 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.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• 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.

  Author: Diana Ross

• 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.

  Author: Harold Rosenberg

• The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

  Author: Charles Rosen

• Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

  Author: Moo-hyum Roh

• 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.

  Author: Mimi Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Fred Rogers

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