Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

There were days when I still put on make up in case you’d come back,but I wear the same clothes and shower in the rainand eat when I can and sleep when I can,which is...

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

The past is like a deceased person. It has to be remembered.

We have noted in the past that our third-quarter earnings per share estimate of 47 cents (versus First Call consensus of 57 cents) would probably be too low if UPS settled early and a second...

This happened back east of course. I’ve heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It’s a reference...

He’s been battling something the past few days. He will not play. We will see how he feels Thursday.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

Mistakes I’ve made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

The countermeasures that we’ve seen in the past and looked at have not been credible countermeasures. They were objects that had very different signatures from the warhead. They were easily distinguishable by measurements that they...

We’ve got to realize that we can’t go back in the past. That score is going to stay on that clock on this hour and this day. But we need to look forward and move...

Only one life, it will soon be past,only what’s done for Christ will last.

The past few years have seen a major shift toward reality-based shows on TV, so it’s no surprise we’re seeing more of the genre released on DVD. The release of ‘Survivor’ showed the studios that...

Every time someone reaches out to you, even if it’s to point out your sin and they seem to be judging you, it is a token of God’s mercy. He sees the past, present, and...

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we’ve used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang...

Has there been a village employee we have found who has stolen something in the past? The answer is yes. But to my knowledge, it’s never been as many people (involved).

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it’s true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of...

Intel’s status as an industry bellwether has allowed the stock to move with the industry in the past.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep...

Students need to learn to look past the badge.

There’s been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That’s not the condition now.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you’re plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that....

Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.

History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR,...

At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward...

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

For the past two and a half years, our organization has focused on strategy. We had to know where we were going before we figured out how we would get there. When we asked Fred...

I’m not as nervous as I was the past two years. I’ve gotten to know the guys a little bit more and they’ve gotten to know me. So it’s a big help. It was nice...

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, … Because of that, the final reading very well could have come...

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one’s Tuesday.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

We’ve been lucky for the past 30 years. So many more issues could have arisen. This ordinance will make all our jobs a lot easier.

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay – and it’s usually most wise to start today.

When you look at the whole (technology) space, the spending over the past 10 to 15 years has all been about corporate computing. But the next stage is going to be all about home entertainment....

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. … That is no gap between the generations, that is a...

don’t make too much noise”. October’s dust in my lungs, maybe I don’t want bits of four AM lingering in my subconscious. Smokers breathe in fire, coat their insides in ash. Is that suicide or...

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you...

No matter how much you revisit the past, there’s nothing new to see.

Whereas in the past people were more politically correct in dealing with others …(now) all they care about is winning.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an “excuse me”. Typical.

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.—I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments...

“I’m not good enough…” These are lies the demons of your past use to scare away the possibilities of the present.

China wants to win the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese people, so in the past few months they have said very little about reunification.