#in the past

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

#envy #fools #in the past #live #only

I am very concerned that we have given up capabilities and methodologies that have worked in the past. I know they work and I'm concerned because in the future we may need these. So while it is the prerogative of the president to make that decision, I am concerned that in the future we may miss these and we may need them to protect American lives. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#american #american lives #because #capabilities #concerned

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#great #in the past #only #past #people

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect. ↗

— William Watson

#believe #contrary #diminution #future #gradual

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. ↗

— David McCullough

#first #first of all #in the past #lived #make

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#bravery #day #embodied #how #i

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets. ↗

— Josie Maran

#fast #get #gotten #i #i do

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#am #anymore #because #best #career

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#fighter #fighters #had #hands #i