“We all have a past. And the people that love you wanna know more, and they take your past as a map on how to love you. They don't use it as something to hold against you.”— Stacy Snyder, imdb.com
“When your past is so present, how can there be a future?”— Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf, Anna, Kristen Bell, imdb.com
“Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.”— R. J. Cutler, Herself, Anna Wintour, imdb.com
“I don't like to dwell on the past.”— Nick Antosca, Michelle Dean, Dee Dee Blanchard, Patricia Arquette, imdb.com
“I have a dark past, everyone knows that.”— Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres, Andres, Julio Torres, imdb.com
“All the guilt. It's lazy energy. It doesn't change the past and it doesn't shape the future.”— Ava DuVernay, Robin Swicord, Grace Cuffee, Suzzanne Douglas, imdb.com
“The sense of always having to look into the future or the past, and therefore ignoring the present, is really detrimental.”— Jack Dorsey, blog.ycombinator.com
“[Even] if I do everything right, they have to find one thing to make everything negative to some extent. I just want to know what people want me to do so that everything can just be okay. I don’t know if that’s ever going to be possible.”— Lindsay Lohan, ew.com
“I’m a normal, nice person. A good person. I don’t have any bad intentions. And my past has to stay in the past.”— Lindsay Lohan, nytimes.com
“Today is a trumpet to set the hounds baying. The past is a fox the hunters are flaying. Nothing unspoken goes without saying. Love’s a casino where lovers risk playing. The future’s a marker our hearts are prepaying. The future’s a promise there’s no guaranteeing. Today is a fire the field mice are…”— Campbell McGrath, apmpodcasts.org
“In just moments, 12 players will be plucked from their lives, stripped of everything, and will travel through time. Half to a futuristic utopia where unimaginable comfort is just a click away. The other to the past —a primeval wilderness of darkness and despair.”— Luke Tipple, imdb.com
“If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead!”— Brad Bird, Auguste Gusteau (voice), Brad Garrett, imdb.com
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us. Is that so, Spirit?”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“May the saddest day of the future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.”— Irisn Blessing, greetingcardpoet.com
“Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do. And then you meet someone special and all you want to do is to toss them the key and say, 'Open up, step inside,' but you can't because it's dark. There's demons, and if anybody…”— Anthony Minghella, Tom Ripley, Matt Damon, imdb.com