All Quotes

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.
‐‐ Michael Lehmann

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.
‐‐ Pete Wentz

In the past, my family made a lot of sacrifices. We never got to spend much time together because I was always training. I think now I need to spend as much time as I can with them. This is the life I should have.
‐‐ Lin Dan

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
‐‐ G-Eazy

In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's going to falter, and I'm going to go into slumps here and there, but stick with the plan, and hopefully it will come out successful more times than not.
‐‐ Freddie Freeman

In the past, my voice was my enemy.
‐‐ Marcello Giordani

In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
‐‐ Barney Oliver

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
‐‐ David Liss

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
‐‐ Mark Cuban

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

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
‐‐ John Barton

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes.
‐‐ Godfrey Hounsfield

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

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

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

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.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
‐‐ John Lewis

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
‐‐ Malcolm X

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.
‐‐ Frederick W. Taylor

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.
‐‐ Peter Sotos

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
‐‐ Tony Campolo

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
‐‐ James Dyson

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
‐‐ Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
‐‐ Richard Marx

In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
‐‐ Adam D'Angelo

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
‐‐ Moshe Katsav

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.
‐‐ Sol Wachtler

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.
‐‐ R. A. Salvatore

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
‐‐ Jacky Ickx

In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.
‐‐ Richard Trumka

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
‐‐ Ahmed Ben Bella

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
‐‐ Dennis Kucinich

In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
‐‐ Amy Grant

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
‐‐ Lennart Meri

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
‐‐ Jennifer Doudna

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
‐‐ Samuel Alexander