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First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
All that time I'd spent worrying about why I'm here and how I'm supposed to live had kept me from remembering that Jeremy Pratt will never be back. His people will never have him again. He is Jeremy Pratt who died and stayed dead and will never get a second chance. And even though that hand that spent the last five years holding hers was somehow doing it again, it wasn't Jeremy Pratt's anyone
— John Corey Whaley, Noggin
Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.
— Katie Cotugno, How to Love
We sit in silence for a minute. Thinking about the freedom we don't have and the future we can't control.
— Chelsea Fine, Sophie & Carter
A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.
— Jayne Ann Krentz, No Going Back: Soft Focus / After Dark
One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free, I vowed.
— Rachel Higginson, Fearless Magic
Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.
— Haruki Murakami, The Ice Man
The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.
— James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
2. Humanity & Peace - 2.09 THE NUCLEAR QUESTIONAny act against the constitution,Must be declared to be but void,But atomic acts against humanity,Are the strength to be but tried.[22]	- 2The future of any of the countries,Does lie way above its people,And the future of humanity -On numerous BOMBS so ample.[23]	- 2
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.
— Orrin Woodward
What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with tomorrow.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
God has a plan for the future and, because He is sovereign, it will come to pass. You can count on it!
— Jim George
What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.
— Jim George
Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an understanding of our Western heritage and its lessons can be instrumental in helping us create new models for the future. For we are all creators of history, and the future of Western and indeed world civilization depends on us.
— Jackson J. Spielvogel
You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today.
— Tim Fargo
This is everyone's fight. Becauseit's everyone's future.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Sentinel
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
— Jason Silva
As I faced each tragedy in my life, I learned to reach into the depth of my soul for strength and determination. Through this healing process, I discovered perseverance and resilience. I could not go into the past and use White-Out to erase any events; instead, I had to find a way to use my pain to help me heal and grow. I had to stare darkness in the face and accept that I could not change the past, but I could build a better future.
— Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
— John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
It's an obvious challenge, but the risk feels too big, the leap too grand, the future too unknown
— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised
Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.
— Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new
— Billy Joel, Billy Joel - River of Dreams
Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future
— Garrison Keillor, A Christmas Blizzard
It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...
— Tad Williams, Stone of Farewell
Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.
— Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great!
— Meena Sarine
In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.
— Mark Peter Hughes, Lemonade Mouth Puckers Up
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
— Henri Poincaré, Science and Method
If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and ‘liking’ it.
— Dean Cavanagh
Your Thinking writes your Future &Your Action makes it.
— Shashank Rayal
Future is the son of Women.because women give birth to future....give respect to all women.
— Kuldeep kandasi
I am not doing anything special,Just struggling with my Present to make my Future enjoyable.
— Shashank Rayal
Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.
— Chris Vonada
Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations
—  to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
— Talli Roland, Build A Man
One of Lyle's best assets was also his biggest downfall--he was a big dick.
— Tonya D. Floyd, The Sun Hasn't Set
If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, Learning to Love - Saul's Story
That wasn’t my future I destroyed,’ she assured herself. ‘I make my own future.
— Rick Riordan, The Staff of Serapis
Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.
— Anthony Liccione
Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?
— F. Sherwood Rowland
Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you’re free.
— Richard Powers, Orfeo
There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one’s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.
— Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls
For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.
— Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
You have it in your God-given power, the willingness to make the years ahead of you to become a brighter one. Avoid things that will not make you a success in the nearby future!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Someday, the people we know, are acquainted to become the people we knew. They leave. They leave to pursue the opportunities laid down in their paths and they leave on account of misunderstandings.Their absence causes a vacuum, a space, an incompleteness which we believe no one can fill. But someday, someone eventually does and that someone rekindles our hopes for companionship, until the circle continues and is ultimately intervened by the permanence of death.The future is alarming, as atrocious as the past. And the friendship, the love, the memories either remain in our hearts cherished or are forgotten like an undeserving dream.Everything eventually fades away, either for the better or worse.Someday, the people we know, are acquainted to become the people we knew.But then again, that someday is not today and so we must be a little more appreciative, for the moment, for the times, for the present because someday everything is going to change.
— Chirag Tulsiani, Reflections
Frequently avoidance of the present leads to idealization of the future... When an event does not live up to your expectations you can get out of the depression by idealizing again. Do not let this vicious circle become your life-style. Interrupt it now with some strategic present-moment fulfillment.
— Wayne W. Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones
Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.
— Jürgen Moltmann
The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade; the climates and oceans destabilize; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution cycles and volumes increase to endanger life-systems at all levels in cascade effects; a rising half of the world is destitute as inequality multiplies; the global food system produces more and more disabling and contaminated junk food without nutritional value; non-contagious diseases multiply to the world’s biggest killer with only symptom cures; the vocational future of the next generation collapses across the world while their bank debts rise; the global financial system has ceased to function for productive investment in life-goods; collective-interest agencies of governments and unions are stripped while for-profit state subsidies multiply; police state laws and methods advance while belligerent wars for corporate resources increase; the media are corporate ad vehicles and the academy is increasingly reduced to corporate functions; public sectors and services are non-stop defunded and privatized as tax evasion and transnational corporate funding and service by governments rise at the same time at every level.
— John McMurtry, The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Care, 2nd Edition
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Bertrand Russell
when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.
— Mohlalefi j motsima
Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you.
— Ricky Maye
My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he didn’t want to blame me but his heart is set on that training and I had been beginning to think that took priority over family. I hope he would see reason but I can't not blame him if he doesn't. Breaking free from this castle is a dream not only held by me.But I can't imagine having to reason with someone who stole your future.
— Celia McMahon
I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.
— Charles Yu, Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Ending Syria's Occupation Of Lebanon: The U.S. Role
You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things
— Jeroen Saey
The future is now! Don't make that second pass you into regrets.
— Anthony Liccione
Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.
— Noah Levine, Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings
— Syed Sohail Ahmed
The future is shaped by young people foolish enough to believe they can topple a mountain. And yet, when we stand among the rubble, we wonder why no one tried sooner.
— Mitch Rowland, Eternity's Redemption
Fear holds us back from living the lives we want. Use your 20s to make bold decisions, follow different paths, learn from heartbreak, and figure out who you are. When you’re 30, do you want to look back at the same boring job, the stale relationship that isn’t working, and no stamps in your passport? If you want something different, if you want a life that is filled with experiences, if you want to learn and grow, if you want to make a difference…conquer the fears, believe in yourself, and just do it. You may be questioning something right now. You may be battling thoughts in your mind about taking a leap. Ask yourself what you have to lose if you leap. Ask yourself what kind of stories you want to have. Ask yourself if you’re worth it, if you deserve it.
— Katie Robinson
The Acceptance of who you are is in the embrace of who you will become.
— Ricky Maye
A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and our local light goes out. The most appropriate response to the world is to realize, with awe, the ferocious mystery of being alive in it. And act accordingly. The worst thing anyone should be able to say about their life is also the greatest thing anyone can say: 'I tried my best.
— Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
It's strange how people give up on you within weeks of promising that they will always be there..and it's just sad that promises are destined to breakand when you had finally believed in that one promisesomeday you give up on yourself too...and it's not about love, it was never..it is, at times, about barren hopes and a bleak tomorrow...
— Sanhita Baruah
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
— Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
Sleep!May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalypse never happened, and everything's fine, normal, at home.Or may be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things have changed, for the better, the apocalypse is over and there's light, hope and a new home.Sleep, you crazy soul, just sleep.
— Sanhita Baruah
The future is just a memory that has yet to be born
— Dean Cavanagh
Nostalgia"How often we use this word reminiscing about the past - our childhood, school days, college days.. We feel nostalgic, we dwell in the memories of the past, we talk about how great those days were and how we would do anything to just go back in time and live those days again..Perhaps we fail to realize the fact that tomorrow we will say the same things about today, about the days we are living in now, about the emotions we are feeling now, about the time we are spending now..I love this day. I love this weird feeling I feel today. I belong here.
— Sanhita Baruah
Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far better than selfishness. The wider our circle of considerations, the more stable we make the world—and the better the prospects for human experience and for all we might wish. The core message of each successive widening: we are one. The geometry of the human voyage is not linear; it's those ripples whose circles expand to encompass self, other, community, Life, and time.
— Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done.
— Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1
Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
— N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman—I was thinking about my own tendencies toward aloneness and I thought I could end up like that woman, with a bird perhaps, or a dog—probably a dog, I know birds are supposed to make good pets but I think there’s something creepy about them—but alone with a life that didn’t touch or overlap with anyone else’s, a sort of hermetically sealed life.
— Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
I tap my pen against the Edith Piaf record, thinking of how to express my future sentiments when my journey comes to an end. Either in the arms of the girl I love, or buried in a box of memories, this note will be the last.'Ma femme, Je ne regrette rien, because I found everything. I love you.
— Ashley Pullo, Intermission
The world is changing because we're changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I'd like to be. A person can seek ways, whether big or small, to heal the world. That, to me, is spirituality and one's 'soul.' Not some disembodied eternal wishfulness but a way of being that, most days, I can work on. Life is like walking with a flashlight on a dark night. You can't see your destination, but each step illuminates the next few steps, and, taking one after another, you can get where you need to go. Only now, we'll need to quicken our pace if we are to avoid major upheaval in this century. It's up to us not just as individuals but as citizens of nations and of the world.
— Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.
— Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
Create your own future
—  you are your own artisan. Promote your own brand
A people without children would face a hopeless future
—  a country without trees is almost as helpless.
Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny.
— oladosu feyikogbon
Life is like one big blueprint, if you don't make plans then your future will not be built
— Rea Hayman
You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who suffer; this barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here day embraces night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me. From the heavy embrace of all desolations springs faith. Sufferings bring their agony here, and ideas their immortality. This agony and immortality will mingle and make up our death.Brothers, whoever dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a grave illuminated by the dawn.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.
— Sara Sheridan, Truth Or Dare
You have no future when the past rules you.
— Sara Sheridan, Truth Or Dare
dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side
— karinush2828
Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith.But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the pillars begin to crumble.Then again that doesn’t mean they can’t be built again. They can, they surely can, when the times are favorable and the state of affairs, sound.
— Chirag Tulsiani
Look at these cliffs! Some are abrupt and unpredictable. Some other are soft and with smooth slopes. Yet, they all have the same purpose: either to lure you and bring you down or to teach you how to stand up, firmly, on their rims while contemplating the horizon. Here, you have the perfect vision of the abyss beneath. the majesty of the skies above, or the endlessness of the horizon in front; but you can't see what's behind, and that's how it should be! What's the point in contemplating something that you already know and lived? Haven't your coming here made you know the paths on which you walked? That's why, what belongs to the past should remain there. The past gives us the lessons. We do not need a heavier luggage than this!
— Irina Serban, Full Circle
Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.
— Shannon L. Alder
In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Don't judge yourself by your past
—  you no longer live there.
The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.
— Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.
The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. You're in it. You're already in it. What is the purpose of all this living if it's only to get some place else and then when you're there you're not happy anyway, you want to be some place else. It's always for 'when I retire,' 'when I graduate college,' 'when I make enough money,' 'when I get married,' 'when I get divorced,' 'when the kids move out.' It's like, wait a minute, this is it. This is your life. We only have moments. This moment's as good as any other. It's perfect.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners
Every time someone reaches out to you, even if it's to point out your sin and they seem to be judging you, it is a token of God's mercy. He sees the past, present, and future. He knows that you're headed for an eternity of pain and sorrow and He's begging you to turn to Him for salvation. Jesus is the only way to Heaven: the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is your only hope. He is your Creator and He loves you more than you could ever love yourself. Please turn to Him. Please don't be deceived into thinking your way is better than His. God's way is perfect.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, A Secret of the Heart
Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.
— Sara Sheridan
The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. … Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.
— Jacques Monod
The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised, the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked, and the natural obstacles, which time and space offer to mutual intercourse, have been reduced in a manner, and to an extent, unknown to former ages. The diminution or removal of local ignorance and prejudice, the creation of common interests among the most widely separated peoples, and the strengthening of the forces of the organisation of the commonwealth against those of political or social anarchy, thus effected, have exerted an influence on the present and future fortunes of mankind the full significance of which may be divined, but cannot, as yet, be estimated at its full value.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
This is about your future. Nobody else can make the decision for you.
— Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love
If beheading is the medicine of headache, no man can live; why cant you find the real way out?
— oladosu feyikogbon
The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.
— Anthony Liccione
History was once the future, the future will create history.
— Daniel J. Hill
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
— John Schaar
You should prepare for your future, you cant stop it from coming.
— amiel masaganda bagadiong
With best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future.
— John R. Dallas Jr., We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
it is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always the future, the present, and the past. It is always eternity that will last.
— Antonia Perdu Millie Farquoix
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.
— Nikola Tesla
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
— Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy
I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.
— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy—and that's a big “IF”—then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.
— Michio Kaku
Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
— Anonymous
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
— Dante Alighieri
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
— Rick Warren
What happens now will not matter in the future.
— Will Nolan
Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.
— Amit Kalantri
while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.
— Monica Ali, Brick Lane
Sammy, wouldn’t you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?”“Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin’ days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled. Or else all planned out for me, maybe. There’s a somewhat likely chance of that.”“Man, Sammy, I can’t live thinking that way""Well,I don't think about it.
— Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
In one way or another, almost every twentysomething client I have wonders, 'Will things work out for me?' The uncertainty behind that question is what makes twentysomething life so difficult, but it is also what makes twentysomething action so possible and so necessary. It's unsettling to not know the future and, in a way, even more daunting to consider that what we are doing with our twentysomething lives might be determining it.
— Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.
— Willis R. Whitney
Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.
— Elizabeth George
Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.
— Hyman George Rickover
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition. (1894)
— Lawrence Hargrave
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
— Douglas C. Engelbart
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.
— Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
A faithful leader shall surely become a fruitful leadear
— oladosu feyikogbon
The future belongs to those who innovate.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.
— Iain M. Banks, Matter
Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now?
— Shannon L. Alder
What's doneis done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we'rewasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everythingahead, waiting for us."Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough toforget thoughts of revenge.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
A long-standing commitment to living in the present—because screw the past. She was a done deal. And screw the future cuz she was a fickle bitch.
— River Jaymes, The Backup Boyfriend
You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.
— John Green
The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.
— Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness
That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.
— James A. Owen, The Shadow Dragons
If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for the rest of the time to come.
— Amit Kalantri
The future is forever a projection of the present.
— Kōbō Abe, Inter Ice Age 4
Chase said, “It was a crazy idea.” An impossible idea.“Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into the future and manipulate people into the right places, you can accomplish amazing things.”“I think I liked the idea better when it was in my head.
— Adrienne Wilder, Seven
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...
— Charles A. Lindbergh
Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.
— Angel Cox, A Day in the Dark
Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! YOU got to know YOU! Guess who you are? YOU are a blessing to all others especially me!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Indeed, life is full of tests. You don’t know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird’s quest, is the test to be the master of fate.
— Nancy Yi Fan, Sword Quest
Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.
— Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.
— Jim George
You can’t worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, The Tomorrows
Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
This is the future,” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.
— Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty
He focused on the world before him
—  the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.
Whatever it will bring, it will be good to be there, in the Land of Future!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Tomorrow will u ever come? Please don't fuck me
— Raju Paliwal
As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries-not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer. For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conception only as cultural posits. The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior to most in that it has proved more efficacious than other myths as a device for working a manageable structure into the flux of experience.
— Willard Van Orman Quine, From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and the history of man shows, that he has advanced. Events, like the pendulum of a clock have swung forward and backward, but after all, man, like the hands, has gone steadily on. Man is growing grander. He is not degenerating. Nations and individuals fail and die, and make room for higher forms. The intellectual horizon of the world widens as the centuries pass. Ideals grow grander and purer; the difference between justice and mercy becomes less and less; liberty enlarges, and love intensifies as the years sweep on. The ages of force and fear, of cruelty and wrong, are behind us and the real Eden is beyond. It is said that a desire for knowledge lost us the Eden of the past; but whether that is true or not, it will certainly give us the Eden of the future.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?
— Rob Liano
In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine.
— Robert Frost
Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.
— Seb Kirby, Take No More
Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!
— Raheel Farooq
It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different.
— John Dufresne, Love Warps the Mind a Little
Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.
— Ingeborg Bachmann, Simultan: Erzählungen
None of These Will Come Easy.
— Barack Obama
Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point in seeking what might exist in an inaccessible domain. I find it very difficult to understand this point of view since what is inaccessible today may become accessible tomorrow (as has happened by the invention of the microscope), and also because coherent assumptions on what is still invisible may increase our understanding of the visible.
— Jean Baptiste Perrin
Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.
— Richmond Akhigbe
History tells Us It’s Possible".
— Behnam Rajabpoor
I Have No Illusion These Will Come Easy".
— Behnam Rajabpoor
In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I don’t want to live in a world where my kids have to worry about what color they will be in the morning.
— Dan Florence, Zombies Love Pizza
There is a better future, with a greater purpose. We can find it, only when we search for it.
— Ellen J. Barrier
I am only doing this because I was asked. They tell me that, sometime in the future, I will thank them for pushing me this way. They say that one day, when all this is over, I will come to terms with who I am and where I came from. Not gonna happen.
— Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions
Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.
— Amit Kalantri
How Long We Should Wait?
— Behnam Rajabpoor
Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected".
— Behnam Rajabpoor
That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.
— Lauren   Miller, Parallel
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
— James Joyce
People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.
— Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.
— Peggy Toney Horton, Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling
The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.
— Shannon L. Alder
Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.
— Shannon L. Alder
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
— Edwin Powell Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae
People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future.
— Himanshu Vassanpal
Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
— Bill Cosby
Nature  …   has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets, and betwixt the different systems.… We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it  …   It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised  …   only to be disappointed at the end  …   This, therefore, naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn or beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation or probation for farther advancement.…
— Colin Maclaurin
Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.
— John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me, everything would be different. Without me, we wouldn't have been there... lying in that bed in the first place.
— Megan Duke, Without Me
Let me dream so I can shape the world, let me dream so I can make others dream as well, but do not let me dream my days away; lest I sleep my years away too.
— Dave Guerrero
A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or month, but at an indefinite future period.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.
— Lewis Thomas