Top 1200 Years Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.

My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

Virginia Mayo had kind of a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives, but you got the whole character in one scene. Where are those parts? I was talking to somebody about great actors: Morgan Freeman's name came up, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington. And I realized, there're no black actresses. Where's there a black actress who's been extremely successful in the past 10 years?

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media... But the internet is becoming the umbrella.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.

Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests a major re-ordering of things. It'll be fascinating to see what happens from now on. It was a genuine break with the recent past - perhaps to re-connect with the past past.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

The most important and invaluable lesson I've learnt in the past 20 years of being in filmdom is to never look back.

The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

During the past few years, I played men who led a gritty life. I wanted to do a lighter and less serious role.

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.

As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too.

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

For the past, I guess, three years or so when I joined Bullet Club and as a member of The Elite, I was honestly kind of in the shadow of all of my friends.

I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.