quotes about Past Present

“We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.”

“We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.”

“My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.”

“Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.”

“I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.”

“Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.”

“The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.”

“There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.”

“I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.”

“Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books