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“I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence.”

Real Would Be Past Order Violence Achieve Security Willing Citizens Threat Painful Terrorism Compromise

Author:Ariel Sharon

“The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.”

Made Past Causes Realizing Critical Accidents Fortunate Damage Crew Columbia Foam Roulette Russian Roulette

Author:Wayne Hale

“If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.”

Ifs Looks Past Success Behinds Successful Miles Painter Squares Canvas

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.”

Art Past Views Generations Tradition Fixed Past Generations

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question.”

Years Past Three House Nations White Program Independence Uncomfortable White House Three Years Senate Committees Avoided Oversight

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Kind Past Half Decades Investors Caution Over The Past Dip

Author:Liz Miller

“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.”

Ifs Years Two Past Used Draws Gains Weight Twenties Conclusion Used To Be Cute Pounds Two Years Mathematician Over The Past Stunning Diagrams Really Cute

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.”

Heart Past Left Can Do Grief My Heart Painful Leafs Withered Time And Change Painful Past Withered Leaves

Author:Richard Henry Horne

“Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.”

Past Willing Future Ashes

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.”

Made Soul Moments Past Stuff Process Memories Becoming

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.”

Feelings Past Belief Bits Memories Simple Information Replay

Author:Daniel Schacter

“The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.”

Way Years May Has Beens Book Past Reading Grades Fifth New Books Sixth Grade Eighth Grade

Author:Brian J. White

“I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.”

Past Games Successful Team Performances Winter Athlete Canada Overwhelming Flags Honored Ceremony Closing Outstanding Over The Past Selected Game Over Outstanding Performance

Author:Cindy Klassen

“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.”

People Want Writing Has Beens Feelings Might Past Next Parent Emotion Careers Four Childhood Letting Go Who You Are Upset Your Children Ties Related Our Relationship I Want You

Author:James W. Pennebaker

“The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.”

Way Might Past Form Order Force Christ Challenges Events Seeking Maturity Fixed Resurrection Isolated Stretching Static Defying Unleashing

Author:Frank Griswold

“Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.”

Today Past Time Dies Opportunity Enjoy Challenges Pleasure Magic Passing Passings Glorious Each Day Undone New Challenges Enjoy Today

Author:Ruth Carter Stapleton

“Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.”

Believe War Past Leader Civilization Iraq Civil War Mainstream Avoided Over The Past Very Positive

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.”

“In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be found on the shelves in supermarkets. From a marketing point of view, we have moved ahead of the competition over the past couple of years, and we intend to do everything to keep that position.”

Years Play Past Found Views Roles Position Products Keys Couple Majority Moved Competition Marketing Point Of View Rising Spite Shelves Over The Past Supermarkets Dairy Dairy Products

Author:Lars Frederiksen

“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.”

Persons Sometimes Past Understanding Gone Self Knowledge

Book:Reena and Other Stories

Source: Reena and Other Stories

“I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.”

Men Past Night Walking Flying Chairs Good Night Walking Away Up All Night Sleepless Nights Good Grades Goodnight Sleeping At Night Have A Good Night Best Night Had A Good Night Inspirational Good Night Dreaming At Night

Author:Liam Gallagher

“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”

Done Age Past Easy Effort Contact Abstraction

Author:Piet Mondrian

“Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.”

Ifs Giving Years Doe Reason Past Natural Economic Resources Guides Proportion Expenses Finite Supplies Scarce Natural Resources Past Experiences

Author:Julian Simon

“Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.”

World Firsts Persons States Hands Seems Age Past Moving Humanity Dies Information Materials Evidence Blind Entertainment Speed Senses Perceive Goods Deaf Acquaintance Deaf And Blind

Author:Julian Simon

“I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.”

People Years Firsts Believe I Can Kids Lasts Past Crazy First Time Red Cameras Workers Aids Noses Last Time Crew Famine Ethiopia

Author:Lenny Henry

“I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.”

Trying Years Bigs Happens Past Havens Garden

Author:Claire Tomalin

“Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.”

Years Has Beens Past Values Community Creation Internet Majority Consumers Venture Over The Past

Author:Bill Gurley

“The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.”

Mean Past Members Slavery Oppression Vulnerable Exploitation Emerging

Author:Juan Somavia

“We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.”

Should Trying Past Achieve Birth Glory Connections Former Rely Arbitrary

Author:Shirley Franklin

“Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.”

Way Past Expected Past Relationship

Author:Kristy Hinze

“Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.”

Has Beens Past Religion Decades

Book:Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”

Past Ruins Ruined

Author:Ellen Gilchrist

“The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.”

Moments Past Spirit Grace Our Lives Active Gifts Of The Spirit

Author:Kimberly Hahn

“Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.”

Doe Art Past Break Greatness Great Art

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.”

Art Past Artist Century Painting Masters Yesterday Historian Giotto

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.”

Moments Past Tradition Active Present Moment Components Stale Artifacts

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.”

World Past Known This World Strategy Endless Iron Gates Territory

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.”

Ifs Giving Should Long Moments Past Worry Should Have Forgotten Present Moment Long Ago Over The Past Skip Agonizing

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.”

Looks Past Incredibles Darling Bad Day Pixar Inspiring Movie Toy Story 3

Author:Walt Disney

“As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.”

Past Asks Conflict Goodness Mercy Revenge Tragic Rejects Patriotic Rejected Casualties Amnesty

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.”

Life Trying Past Force Aids Live Life Fallen Fear Of Failure Undertakings Live Life To The Fullest Live Life To Its Fullest Live Your Life To The Fullest Live To The Fullest

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.”

Past Happiness Joy Achieve Positive Atheism Immortality Instant Anomalies

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.”

Past Life Is Strange Bears Witness Live Life Strangeness

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!”

World Ideas Past Science Interesting Mountain Organized Acquire Sand Iron Sublime Coal Clay Monument Geology Felicity Incumbents Interesting Ideas

Book:Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough

Source: Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough

“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”

Years Humans Kind Past Energy Human Beings Millions Environment Happened Rocks Century Ocean Climate Change Scales Experiments Atmosphere Carbon Large Scale

Author:Roger Revelle

“Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.”

Body Past Flow Rivers Exciting Cells Memorable Fiber

Author:John Muir

“We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.”

“I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.”

Needs Believe Past I Believe Judging Vote Constitution Democrat Suits Voting Agendas Voters Fringe

Author:David Letterman