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Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past.

Eric Hoffer

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern

William Gibson

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

Warren Bennis

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Roger Smith

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Henry Kissinger

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

George Orwell

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

H. G. Wells

'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.

Yogi Berra

The future ain't what it used to be.

Aeschylus

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

Johnny Carson

Only lie about the future.

Robert Half

What happens when the future has come and gone

Robert Fulford

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

George Will

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Dan Burrus

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

George

There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it is It's gone.

Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

The future comes one day at a time.

Wayne Van Dyck

The speciality of the future is generalism.

Dean Acheson

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Jason Kaufmann

The best way to predict the future is to create it

George

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

William Gibson

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

Dan Quayle

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Nikola Tesla

The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Back to the Future

Dr. Emmett Brown The appropriate question is WHEN the hell are they.

Joseph Conrad

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Arnold Glasgow

The future is the past returning through another gate.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

James Arthur Baldwin

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Ken Lancaster

Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.

Back to the Future

Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born.

Unknown

Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.

Ann Landers

Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

La Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

Jimmy Carter

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

George Peabody

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Paul Boese

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Back to the Future

Biff Tannen So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here

Ed Lindeman

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

Ronald Reagan

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Lewis Mumford

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Nicole Kidman

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Stephen Spender

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

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. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The pat

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of u

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I've seen the future. I can't afford it.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

One man cannot summon the future.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

You can never plan the future by the past.

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Be a cause of the future, not a result of the past.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

The future belongs to those who dare.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

There's no future in time travel

"Why should you want to know? Don't you mind about the future!

Most of our future lies ahead.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Study the past if you would define the future.

The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Prepare for the future ... Read Science Fiction.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Predicting the future of technology is fraud with peril!

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.