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

They say miracles are past.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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

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.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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.

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

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.

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

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

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

A good song never gets old.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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

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!

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.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

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.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

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.

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

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I was adored once too.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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 the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

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

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.

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.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

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.

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

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

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

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

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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.

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

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.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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

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