Future Quotes V

FUTURE QUOTES V

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

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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

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It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune

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The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.

JEAN PAUL

Treasury of Thought

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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

BILL WATTERSON

Calvin and Hobbes

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There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.

EUGENE O'NEILL

A Moon for the Misbegotten

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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

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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

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Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

ALVIN TOFFLER

Future Shock

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Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

TRACY LETTS

August: Osage Country

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The future ain't what it used to be.

YOGI BERRA

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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"

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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

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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

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The future will soon be a thing of the past.

GEORGE CARLIN

Napalm and Silly Putty

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The future is still unspoiled.