Over The Past Quotes - Page 3

• If I've learned anything over the past 5 years, it's that you do not know where you're going to be tomorrow. You have to make decisions based on that; it's almost pointless. So, you know, whether I learned, I think I'm pretty aware, pretty conscious of that point to live in the moment. It's a hard lesson, but it's like, I'm trying to learn to quiet my mind down, know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

  Mika

  Fighting, Past, Majority

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• Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

  Robert Winston

  Children, Past, Thinking

  "Seeing is believing" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2004.

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• The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Past, Years

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• "Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

  Ernest Cline

  Healing, Past, Light

  "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.

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• Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?

  Sean Covey

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Reality, Years

  "How Capitalism Can Save Art" by Camille Paglia, www.wsj.com. October 05, 2012.

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• Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.

  Patricia Briggs

  Couple, Past, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.91, Penguin

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• I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode... pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.

  Karen Chance

  Real, Past, Differences

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.681, Penguin

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• Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Years, Feminist

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• I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

  Andre Gide

  Distance, Eye, Past

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• Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

  Abdallah II

  Loss, Past, Years

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• The past is never dead. It's not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Past, Heredity And Environment

  Requiem for a Nun act 1 (1951)

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Cnn

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Mean, Past

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, Two

  "USDA Accomplishments in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

  James Surowiecki

  Past, Years, Oil

  "Pump Pressure". www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2005.

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• The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Taken, Past, Welfare Programs

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• My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Couple, Past, People

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.

  Andy Tobin

  Gay, Past, Light

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• When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Couple, Team

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• The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself - not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

  Michael Behe

  Book, Hard Work, Intelligent

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Past, Years, Average

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• From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Money, Past

  "End the Fed". Speech to the US House of Representatives, www.lewrockwell.com. February 05, 2009.

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