The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Someone did a graphic of me in my jersey, and Jordan, they dubbed him guarding me, and Kanye’s face was on both of us. That’s my favorite meme of all time – or so far to-date. I’m gonna have to get that blown up on my wall or something.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back!

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

They say miracles are past.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

A good song never gets old.

What is past is prologue.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They’re cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

George Carlin’s album, ‚Class Clown,‘ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.