If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
In the past, I've been a selfish player. I'll definitely admit that.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.
I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
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.
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
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.
As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
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.
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
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.
