“I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantTryingPlayPastSongGoneOne ThingStagePureIntention Author:Ryan Adams
“If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.” IfsMindIdeasWould BeTodayPastOne ThingInsightNo IdeaParadoxSchemesInterfereExploringDazzlingCausalityExperimental ScienceMind Boggling Author:Carl Sagan
“Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.” ShouldSoulDoneHappensCarePastHappenedOne ThingFindingsLifetimeGenuine Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.” PeopleThinkingSelfSometimesHardProblemPastGivenStruggleOne ThingConstantBonesRidiculousThanksCrushHard TimesTragicInsecurityUpbringing Author:Mark Oliver
“But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.” KnowsWayMindMayPastGonePlayerHappenedOne ThingTeamFootballMonthsTablesBottomSoccerAnalysisLeaguePrizeMeaninglessAnother WayInadequateAugustFractionsPremier LeagueDerbyPrize Money Author:Pete Gill
“If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.” IfsYearsGovernmentPastOne ThingTaughtHonorEthicsImportanceAffairHandleTaught Us Book:Speaking up Source: Speaking up
“In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.” IfsMenPastOne ThingMonthsPaidConvinced Author:Judy Greer
“I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.” YearsPastPiecesOne ThingAdviceTaughtScriptsThirtySay AnythingThirty YearsDe Niro Author:Cathy Moriarty
“The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I did work serially, or something like that, but I never did, it was always I let my ear tell me what to do.” MightPastOne ThingEarsTechniqueStrict Author:Richard Meale
“I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsKindPlaySeemsAmericaPastOrderBlackOne ThingConnectionsRelationHistoricalDetermineWho We AreOur Past Author:August Wilson
“One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.” SaidPastPoetryLiteratureOne ThingPoetCriticismThey Said Author:Philip Larkin