quotations about the future
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
attributed, The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not;
Speak then to me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Mabeth
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.
CHINA MIéVILLE
Kraken
The future is still unspoiled.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A Long Fatal Love Chase
The future ain't what it used to be.
YOGI BERRA
Tomorrow will be a new day.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
ANITA BROOKNER
Lewis Percy
Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand--
I turn my face away;
I'll not invite her to my home--
I only love Today.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"Today"
It is today that we must create the world of the future.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Tomorrow Is Now
The future was a time that called into question everything that came before it.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark
Whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
RICHARD NIXON
Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1969
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
AYN RAND
The Romantic Manifesto
Learn to recognize the future the way a Steersman identifies guiding stars and corrects the course of his vessel. Learn from the past; never use it as an anchor.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
We're not responsible for the world we're born into. Only for the world we leave when we die. So we have to accept what's gone before us in the past, and work to change the only thing we can--the future.
WILLIAM SHATNER
The Ashes of Eden
Coming events cast their shadows before.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
We must discipline ourselves to convert dreams into plans, and plans into goals, and goals into those small daily activities that will lead us, one sure step at a time, toward a better future.
JIM ROHN
Five Major Pieces To the Life Puzzle
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Einstein's Dreams
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Science and the Modern World
Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
The Shack