I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
DAN QUAYLE I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
DAN QUAYLE My view is, the most important thing as prime minister is trying to make the right judgments. In ord...
DAVID CAMERON The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the ...
HUMAN ANGELS What good is [Al] Gore if he can't beat Bush? I mean, Gore is beating Gore.
RALPH NADER I think the Gore campaign has made an enormous issue of the fact that George is not smart, ... Did A...
BARBARA BUSH The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.
JENNIFER ESTEP There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered mediocre people running corporate America Their judg...
JOSEPH D. JAMAIL, JR. Al Gore is endorsing someone who has taken positions diametrically opposite of what Al Gore has supp...
JOE LIEBERMAN I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right ju...
EPICTETUS Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which h...
DAN QUAYLE Rate-making and setting of rate proposals is part science and part art because there are judgments t...
BRIAN DUPLESSIS If you guys are upset that Al Gore is endorsing me, attack me, don't attack Al Gore, ... I think Al ...
HOWARD DEAN In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to mak...
DANIEL CRAIG We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our ...
LEARNED HAND In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstoo...
LOUIS THEROUX I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation...
SINEAD O'CONNOR I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
BIBLE I like Bradley, he's a good person, but I have to support the man who's got the best chance of getti...
CORNEL WEST I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I wa...
TAYLOR SWIFT I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY Make no judgments where you have no compassion
ANNE MCCAFFREY I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
GIANNI VERSACE Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the ...
GEORGE GALLOWAY I am a good fan of Al Gore, but I am also equally supportive of other candidates out there,
DONNA BRAZILE Nothing is discounted if it can be investigated. There was plenty to investigate here, and any judgm...
JOHN MILLER I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their gov...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on t...
CHERIE LUNGHI I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
SAM ALTMAN we all made mistakes in our past but we have to get over them so we can have better future
AMJED ALAA I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might ...
BERYL MARKHAM I am proud to nominate the first Jewish candidate for vice president, my colleague and my friend Jos...
CHRIS DODD I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't ...
HEATH LEDGER I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Ground Zero in the 2004 presidential campaign. ... I believe that, had Al Gore stayed in Ohio, he pr...
ROB PORTMAN It could go on for years. We've seen motions for summary judgments, which could have ended it quickl...
JEFF NORMAN There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thi...
SAUL BELLOW For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make...
PHILIPPA GREGORY We had all sorts of judgments about where the economy is heading before the hurricane. The hurricane...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
YVONNE CRAIG Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
ANTHONY KIEDIS Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...
ECKHART TOLLE Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.
ISAAC MARION It was just a good solid round. My irons were the key today. I hit a lot of good shots and made all ...
LISELOTTE NEUMANN Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty mor...
JACQUES BARZUN The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future b...
MURRAY ROTHBARD Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers.
ROBERT GREENE The past wrote about the future not acknowledging the past writing about the future. Will we ever le...
ANGELA DILLON Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty mor...
JACQUES BARZUN I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing to...
HEATH LEDGER In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
PAULO COELHO Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and...
EIKE BATISTA Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others.
GARY HOPKINS The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classific...
KARL PEARSON To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholi...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE I will win the nomination and I will beat Al Gore,
DAN QUAYLE I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
STEVE NASH Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow them...
COLIN QUINN Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
WALTER BENJAMIN I made a long-term commitment to Renault and I believe I have a good chance to drive races in 2007.
HEIKKI KOVALAINEN I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgm...
TIM COPE Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value c...
NOAM CHOMSKY To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI I have enjoyed shaking hands and I have made a lot of good contacts. I have been following up with t...
CHARLIE BROWN Who you are today is the outcome of the choices you have made in the past. Choices that you will mak...
VISHWAS CHAVAN You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I loo...
KEVIN SORBO If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
DAN QUAYLE I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
T. BOONE PICKENS I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgm...
DIANNE WIEST Lady Kingsley, when you read this, do attempt to keep an open mind.”
“I will if you w...
SABRINA JEFFRIES I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made,...
VINCE GILL I've been to this jazz festival more than any other. This is my favorite, I'd have to say. I have a ...
CONNIE JONES Only Al Gore can beat Al Gore, ... it won't matter who wins.
RALPH NADER Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in wh...
BROOKE NEVIN Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in ...
WILLIAM WATSON The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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