Quote: The future is... black. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. Author: J. G. Ballard 1930-, British Author
Quote: It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Author: Yogi Berra 1925-, American Baseball Player
Quote: I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. Author: John Betjeman 1906-1984, British Poet
Quote: Take no thought for tomorrow; for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [Matthew 6:34] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. Author: Corrie Ten Boom Dutch Evangelist
Quote: When all else is lost, the future still remains. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. Author: Ray Bradbury 1920-, American Science Fiction Writer
Quote: The future is as bright as the promises of God. Author: William Carey 1761-1834, British Missionary, Orientalist
Quote: By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never. Author: Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Author: Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker
Quote: our day will come is another way of saying you get yours. Author: Merelene Cornish
Quote: Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future. Author: M. R. Dehaan
Quote: Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard. Author: Fritz R. S. Dressler American President of FRS Dressler Associates
Quote: The best way to predict the future is to create it. Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Create your future from your future not your past. Author: Werner Erhard American Entrepreneur, Scientologist
Quote: The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. Author: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 1925-, German Baritone Singer
Quote: That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems,'' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life. Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. Author: John Galsworthy 1867-1933, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it. Author: Arnold H. Glasgow
Quote: I don't ever look back. I look forward. Author: Steffi Graf 1969-, German Tennis Player
Quote: I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. Author: Billy Graham 1918-, American Evangelist
Quote: We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. Author: Gunther Grass 1927-, German Author
Quote: The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. Author: Franz Grillparzer 1791-1872, Austrian Dramatic Poet
Quote: I know of know way of judging the future but by the past. Author: Patrick Henry 1736-1799, American Orator, Patriot
Quote: The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. Author: Billy Joel 1949-, American Musician, Piano Man, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: The future is purchased by the present. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. Author: Omar Khayyam 1048-1131, Persian Astronomer, Poet
Quote: People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. Author: Milan Kundera 1929-, Czech Author, Critic
Quote: Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. Author: Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: They gave each other a smile with a future in it. Author: Ring Lardner 1885-1933, American Writer
Quote: The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.'' Author: Bruce Lee 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist
Quote: The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906-, American Author
Quote: The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906-, American Author
Quote: It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. Author: George Macdonald 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist
Quote: The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. Author: James T. Mccay
Quote: A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical. Author: Juliet Mitchell 1940-, New Zealand Author
Quote: The future influences the present just as much as the past. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future. Author: Jean Paul
Quote: The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Author: Mary Pickford 1893-1979, Canadian-born American Actress
Quote: I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning... Author: J. B. Priestley 1894-1984, English Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Quote: Tomorrow never comes. Author: Proverb
Quote: Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth. Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin
Quote: When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future. Author: Ayn Rand 1905-1982, Russian Writer, Philosopher
Quote: The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions. Author: Steve Rivkin
Quote: We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA
Quote: There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. Author: Jean Rostand 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer
Quote: The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: We know what we are, but know not what we may be. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future. Author: Roger Smith American Businessman, CEO of GM
Quote: It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. Author: Gertrude Stein 1874-1946, American Author
Quote: Imagine a baseball thrown thru the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail -- names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture -- can you tell what direction it is travelling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present freeze frame of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future). Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We have inherited the past; we can create the future. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Whatever your past has been your future is spotless. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Author: Paul Valery 1871-1945, French Poet, Essayist
Quote: The future is made of the same stuff as the present. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author
Quote: I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. Author: William Allen White 1868-1944, American Editor, Writer
Quote: The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: When I look into the future, it is so bright it burns my eyes. Author: Oprah Winfrey 1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author