“If you look at the Bernie Sanders of today and you look at the Bernie Sanders of a year ago [2015], when this started, he`s come a long way in terms of.This was a guy at the start of the campaign who had contempt for any personal questions.” IfsWayYearsLooksLongTodayGuyTermYears AgoCampaignsContemptLong WayPersonal Question Author:Steve Kornacki
“They look at me and say how come you're winning? You came back from the dead three years ago, and you're already killing it. I mean I came back from the dead. Thanks to my family and thanks to Kevin Zinger and my brother Evidence and Rocko, especially my blood family and the guys in Swollen Members. I wouldn't even be here today if it wasn't for those people.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksMeanTodayGuyThreeWinningBloodBrotherMembersEvidenceYears AgoMy FamilyKillingThanksMy BrotherThree YearsLook At MeKevinSwollenKilling It Author:Shane Bunting
“At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.” IfsWayYearsLooksTodayLastsPastValuesFeltCoupleYears AgoAgreeReleaseReluctantMy PastTime Passes Author:Yoshi Wada
“In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.” YearsTodayLandAmountYears AgoPopulationColombiaSmall Amounts Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good website gets built than there was even then.” PeopleThinkingYearsTodayBuiltYears AgoWebsiteReally Deep Author:Khoi Vinh
“I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsWellsStatesTodayWhiteInterestingApproachYears AgoEggsCrispsOmelets Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.” YearsTodayThreeSittingYears AgoOddBordersQuartersFlagsAnthem Author:Juan Enriquez
“I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.” YearsTodayRememberGamesLevelsPlayerYears AgoInternationalNineNbaTwelveRemember WhenEighteen Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.” PeopleYearsBelieveMightKidsTodayFallCultureFiveYouthHundredYears AgoPhrasesFalling ApartManuscripts Author:Joel McHale
“I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'” KnowsYearsSaidTwoTodayValuesParentPartyPrinciplesRepublicanYears AgoVoteLet MeDemocratSouthConservativeRadioThirtyTexasGrandparentProbabilityThirty Years Author:Rafael Cruz
“Everybody would be better off if they could buy housing for only, let's say, a carrying charge of one-quarter of their income. That used to be the case 50 years ago. Buyers had to save up and make a higher down payment, giving them more equity - perhaps 25 or 30 percent. But today, banks are creating enough credit to bid up housing prices again.” IfsGivingYearsEnoughWould BeTodayUsedCasesHigherCreatingPercentYears AgoCreditIncomeUsed To BeQuartersBetter OffEquityHousingPaymentBuyers Author:Michael Hudson
“On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.” WorldYearsTodayMovingHellConflictYears AgoDecadesDespiteThirtyHopefulSyriaThirty YearsRight Direction Author:Richard Branson
“There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.” YearsHomeTodayEnergyInterestPayCuttingWonderfulCostTenLowsYears AgoBillsSavingEfficientVehicleElectricLoanSavingsFinancingElectric Vehicles Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.” YearsBigsTodaySocialFeminismMediaAspectYears AgoSocial Media Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.” WayYearsMeanTodaySilenceAdventureThousandFindingsYears AgoStillnessThousand Years Author:Pico Iyer
“Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.” YearsHumansWarTodayChristianMovingFightingSpeakEnjoyDogHuman NatureBearsEmpathyYears AgoHorseJewVeganRacingPitsExpectancyLife ExpectancySpeak Less Author:Frank Schaeffer
“Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.” WorldYearsTodayWantedYears AgoTwentiesRelevantOutdated Author:Indira Gandhi
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.” PeopleShouldYearsLongTodayWantedPoorCitiesPovertyTenMountainAspectYears AgoIndiaAssumingForestsTribesBetter Off Author:Indira Gandhi
“Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.” YearsWarHardTodayGivenDrugTenYears AgoInternationalMythAidsWar On DrugsPretextColombiaAmnestyAmnesty International Author:Noam Chomsky
“The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.” YearsTodaySpaceTechnologyDevelopmentHundredYears AgoIncludingSignificanceWarfareTechnologicalNavy Author:Noam Chomsky
“[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.” YearsTodayTrainingYears AgoExcellentHumanistRelevant Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.” WorldYearsTodayOpportunityDealsChangedYears AgoFortunate Author:Richard Meier
“The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50 years ago as a central part of our constitutional tradition. So, under that principle, we ought to be applying the same standard today that I would have said we should have applied a year ago.” ShouldYearsPersonsSaidTodayValuesGivenPrinciplesOughtStandardsYears AgoTraditionShould HaveVote Author:Lawrence Lessig
“10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.” KnowsMenWorldYearsDoneWould BeTodayEarthFightingBlackConditionsMovementRevolutionKingsYears AgoInherentSlow DownLutherMilitancy Author:Malcolm X
“A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.” MenYearsStillsUseTodayUsedWhiteTakenDogHundredYears AgoPoliceUniformsSheetsWhite ManBloodhounds Author:Malcolm X
“Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.” WayYearsTodayDoubtPlayerYears AgoFantasticPianoPerformingNo DoubtAdmirationFavouriteArthurPianist Author:Richard Clayderman
“In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.” YearsHeartChildrenTodayMotherAsksFoundNovelWifeRiskResearchYears AgoStrangerMy ChildrenOverwhelmingRelevantSeventiesConsumedNightingalesWives And Mothers Author:Megan Chance
“If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsChildrenMightTodayPresidentSeeingYears AgoBasesTragedySyriaDay To DayVividPenetrateBombingAftermath Author:Barack Obama
“If I remember, Russia, 20 or 30 years ago, you'd get shot trying to leave. Today, Russian tourists are all over the world. You have Russian oligarchs with big yachts all over the world.” IfsWorldTryingYearsBigsTodayRememberShotsYears AgoRussiaTouristsYacht Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?” ThinkingYearsStatesTodayGamesDangerousCapacityYears AgoLaysPsychologicalCaliforniaInfrastructureVergeMegaHonduras Author:Kevin Starr
“Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.” YearsCountryStatesTodayFormGoneDemocracyYears AgoPoliceDemocraticHeavyPolice StateVenezuelaDemocratizationDemocratic Country Author:David Frum
“It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.” YearsTodayRacePracticeImpossibleHappeningsYears AgoSlaveryContemporaryExecutionPenaltiesHauntingDeath PenaltyLynchingEerie Author:Shane Claiborne
“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.” IfsYearsMayHappensTodaySocialHoursWeekMinutesMediaMonthsMessagesMouthsYears AgoTwentiesSocial MediaCustomersHorribleSecondsWord Of Mouth Author:Bill Capodagli
“I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.” WorldFeelsYearsI CanRealityAgeTodayRomanceBehindsGoneSawsInvolvedYears AgoGoldenFortunateKitchenHotelFadesChefGet InvolvedAccountantsGolden AgeOld WorldStoves Author:Marco Pierre White
“Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.” MenYearsKindDoeStillsTodayGuyCultureDoorsFootballRevolutionNeededOfficeHundredYears AgoBunchFiftyCultMasculinityFrontiersExaltedManlyIndustrial Revolution Author:Steve Almond
“Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.” PeopleYearsHas BeensMadeStillsDifferentCountryFactsProblemTodayLeftWhiteBehindsProgressYears AgoDistanceOur CountryAfrican AmericanNativeDeniedNative AmericanDisputesLeft BehindAsianLatinoLeft OutAsian American Author:John Lewis
“Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.” PeopleYearsTodayWantedAmericaSituationHundredYears AgoUnstableComing To America Author:Jack Williams
“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.” ThinkingYearsI CanWould BeKidsTodaySchoolNamesCommonClassChangedCollegeDevelopmentSpeechNormalHigh SchoolYears AgoDiagnosisAspergersHigh School Class Author:Temple Grandin
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over 100 years ago, parents were upset because their kids were reading dime-store novels. Parents would say, "I don't want you inside reading anymore. Get outside and play." I guarantee you, in 50 years or so, parents are going to say, "You're not going outside to play until you finish that video game."” IfsThinkingWantYearsBookPlayKidsTodayReadingGamesParentNovelYears AgoStoresVideoUpsetGuaranteesDimes Author:Paul Saffo
“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.” WorldYearsStillsWarEndsFactsTodayLastsCoursesCasesHavensPolicyColdOughtCommitmentEuropeYears AgoUnionsNuclearRussiaNonsenseRegionsSovietForeign PolicyLast TimeCold WarAsiaSoviet UnionAlliancesPostureNuclear WarReconsiderationLatvia Author:Kevin Gutzman
“You know, women are acting the way they want to act now. Years ago they would hide it in the way they dressed, the way they speak, even the way they act in bed. Today, they're doing the same thing, but they're dressing the way they want to be treated and, when you're with them, acting the way they want to act. And you know, honesty is the best policy. I love that.” KnowsWayWantYearsTodaySpeakActingHonestyPolicyBedYears AgoTreatedDressingsHonesty Is The Best Policy Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.” YearsTodayYears Ago Author:Jonathan Kozol
“It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.” PeopleKnowsYearsStillsDifferentTodayArtistRecordsKeysTenYears AgoOnlineComing OutSinglesNew Artists Author:Avril Lavigne
“The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.” YearsTodayPrinciplesKingsIdealsYears AgoForgottenRelevantDrs Author:George Lucas
“If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.” PeopleIfsInspirationalYearsLongHas BeensSeemsTodayAbleMagicAmountHundredYears AgoAll ThingsDistanceFlyingGrantedDataLong DistanceTransmitOracles Author:Elon Musk
“I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.” YearsI CanTodayMovingEffortOne ThingWeekMonthsWeaponsYears AgoNuclearDevelopingMoving OnIranNuclear WeaponsMoved On Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.” YearsSometimesTodayYears Ago Author:Joel Osteen
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.” IfsShouldYearsPlayTodayPoliticalPoliticsStandardsYears AgoRadicalRacistJudged Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.” YearsDifferentTodayProcessYears AgoDemocraticMachineryDemocratic Process Author:Steven Spielberg