The Future Quotes

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

Impossible to see, the future is.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.