Quotes and Sayings About Past
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Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
-- Al Gore -
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
-- Al McGuire -
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
-- Al Stewart -
For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.
-- Alan Brinkley -
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
-- Alan Cohen -
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.
-- Alan Cohen -
Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
-- Alan Cohen -
View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
-- Alan Cohen -
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
-- Alan Cohen -
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
-- Alan Dundes -
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
-- Alan Dundes -
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
-- Alan Dundes -
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
-- Alan Furst -
We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
-- Alan Greenspan -
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
-- Alan Jackson -
Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.
-- Alan Jackson -
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
-- Alan Johnson -
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
-- Alan Lightman -
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
-- Alan Lightman -
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
-- Alan Moore -
If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.
-- Alan Moore -
The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
-- Alan Moore -
It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
-- Alan Paton -
There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.
-- Alan Redpath -
If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.
-- Alan Shearer -
We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.
-- Alan Shepard -
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.
-- Alan Turing -
Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.
-- Alan Watts -
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
-- Alan Watts
