#the past

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#bad people #because #in the past #many #meaning

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. ↗

— Max Baucus

#been #china #critical #former #human

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament. ↗

— Michael Chang

#attitude #close #come #even #feel

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence. ↗

— Judy Collins

#dreaming #dreams #give #give me #had

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#even #future #given #heredity #impossible

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#get #good #guys #i #in the past

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school. ↗

— Mimi Rogers

#bring #high #high school #i #important

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

#apt #author #because #comment #consider

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it. ↗

— Christian Bale

#attack #backwards #began #few #forwards