Past Quotes (2267 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Peter Zumthor
„Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.“
― Peter Zumthor ―
Picture of quotation author Jonathan Zittrain
„Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.“
Picture of quotation author Philip Zimbardo
„Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.“
― Philip Zimbardo ―
Picture of quotation author Philip Zimbardo
„What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?“
― Philip Zimbardo ―
Picture of quotation author Ian Ziering
„Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.“
― Ian Ziering ―
Picture of quotation author Khaleda Zia
„Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.“
― Khaleda Zia ―
Picture of quotation author Warren Zevon
„Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.“
― Warren Zevon ―
Picture of quotation author Meles Zenawi
„I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.“
― Meles Zenawi ―
Picture of quotation author Pieter Zeeman
„I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.“
― Pieter Zeeman ―
Picture of quotation author Zedd
„Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.“
― Zedd ―
Picture of quotation author Jamie Zawinski
„You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.“
― Jamie Zawinski ―
Picture of quotation author Giuseppe Zanotti
„The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.“
Picture of quotation author Israel Zangwill
„The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.“
― Israel Zangwill ―
Picture of quotation author Townes Van Zandt
„Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.“
Picture of quotation author Mark Zandi
„There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.“
― Mark Zandi ―
Picture of quotation author Mark Zandi
„Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.“
― Mark Zandi ―
Picture of quotation author Fareed Zakaria
„If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.“
― Fareed Zakaria ―
Picture of quotation author Pia Zadora
„In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.“
― Pia Zadora ―
Picture of quotation author Steve Yzerman
„We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.“
― Steve Yzerman ―
Picture of quotation author Malala Yousafzai
„We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.“

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