Future Quotes

FUTURE QUOTES

quotations about the future

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Conquest of Happiness

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The only fresh meat is the future.

SARAH LINDSAY

"Circus Merk's Queen of Siberia"

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Always in motion is the future.

YODA

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits
Ripening her Eden silently.

GERALD MASSEY

"To My Wife"

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All people and all men are filled with a kind of premonition, and everyone whose vital organs are not paralyzed faces with shuddering expectation the approaching future which will utter the redeeming word.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

"The Reaction in Germany"

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Rebel

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Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

America the Principled

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We cannot tell the future. It is written by too many hands.

ALEXANDER WOO

"A Sparrow in a Swallow's Nest", The Terror: Infamy

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Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

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If we could unfold the future, the present would be our greatest care.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Nobody knows what the future will bring, but it's a good bet that there will be a delivery charge.

TOM WILSON

Ziggy, Feb. 14, 2000

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He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

GEORGE ORWELL

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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We are fond of looking to the future, because our secret wishes make us apt to turn in our favour the uncertainties which move about in it hither and thither.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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The future was a dark corridor, with the door at its end firmly closed.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

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How can anyone ever predict the future?... It's mind boggling. The only explanation that makes sense is that the events have already occurred in one way or another.

LY DE ANGELES

Tarot Theory and Practice

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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.