quotations about the future
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON
Calvin and Hobbes
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
The future ain't what it used to be.
YOGI BERRA
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
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
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
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
Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
The future is still unspoiled.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A Long Fatal Love Chase
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
The future is an infinite succession of presents.
HOWARD ZINN
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
The future was a time that called into question everything that came before it.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark
Coming events cast their shadows before.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
It is today that we must create the world of the future.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Tomorrow Is Now
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
AYN RAND
The Romantic Manifesto
The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.
WALTER LIPPMANN
Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
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"
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
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
GEORGE LEONARD
The Silent Pulse