I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.
Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.
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.
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.
For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.
Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.
I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
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?
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
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.
I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.
I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.
