Quotes of: Recent-past Keyword

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

Roh Moo-hyun

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

Robert Wyatt

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Madame de Stael

I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.

Michael Jai White

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

Murray Walker

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

Norah Jones

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.

John Hutton

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

Carl Levin

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

Maureen Chiquet

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.

Louise Gluck

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Michael Mandelbaum

It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.

Neil Turok

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Stan Musial

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Taylor Swift

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Erich von Stroheim

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

Colm Meaney

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.

Ibrahim Emile

There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

Ian Mckellen

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

John Corigliano