I didn’t come here to dwell on the past. I want to discuss the future.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, The Widow, Emily Beecham, imdb.com
I didn’t come here to dwell on the past. I want to discuss the future.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, The Widow, Emily Beecham, imdb.com
To truly love, to truly forgive and to hold no record of the past is very hard.
This fragile, trembling glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
Through the darkness of future's past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds... 'Fire...walk with me.'
— Mark Frost, David Lynch, One-Armed Man, Al Strobel, imdb.com
Statistics are history, and we gather them so that we can learn from history.
History is supposed to teach us how to deal with the present and future, but it doesn't do that if we look at it merely as a record of events.
I buried the girl I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still small and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way back to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.
It is not your privilege as a nation to speak of a distant past.
Even I fell into the most terrible of human traps...Trying to change what is already past.
— Lisa Joy, Charles Yu, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
If you know where you come from, it’s easier to get where you’re going.
Getting past difficult experiences takes more than just a positive attitude.
Never be defined by your past. It was only meant to be a lesson, not a life sentence.
If everybody had a time machine and they can hop in that machine and go back a couple of hours, a couple of seconds, they would do it. But we're living right now.
We cannot change a pain-filled past. What we can do is change how if affects us. We can change how we see it and how we use it.
We've all got issues. We've all got experiences. We all have baggage. You've got to be able to identify and unpack your baggage.
We wanna look to the future, we gotta tear down the past. Babe Ruth was nothing more than a fat old man, with little-girl legs. And here's something I just found out recently. He wasn't really a sultan. Ah, what d'you make of that? Hey, check this out. Lou Gehrig's pants. Not a bad fit. Hey, you don…
— Jennifer Crittenden, George Steinbrenner, Larry David, imdb.com
I used to wish I had a chance to see it all—and hated that I never would.
If I look back I am lost.
Thank your past for all the lessons, and move on...