quotations about the future
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
BILL CLINTON
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON
Calvin and Hobbes
We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile.... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
WILLIAM GIBSON
Pattern Recognition
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
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
The future? I hate it because I will not be there.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
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
The best is always yet to come.
BOB DYLAN
"If Dogs Run Free"
The future is still unspoiled.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A Long Fatal Love Chase
He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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
The future was a time that called into question everything that came before it.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark
The future ain't what it used to be.
YOGI BERRA
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.
EUGENE O'NEILL
A Moon for the Misbegotten
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Einstein's Dreams
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
AYN RAND
The Romantic Manifesto
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.
JEAN PAUL
Treasury of Thought
Coming events cast their shadows before.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
The future will soon be a thing of the past.
GEORGE CARLIN
Napalm and Silly Putty
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE
letter to a Member of the National Assembly