My Past Quotes
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.
It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!
I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.
The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.
America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.
Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.
I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.