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Quotes About Anticipation

Only lie about the future.
~ Johnny Carson
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
~ Joe Haldeman
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
~ Aeschylus
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
~ John Cale
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
~ Lord Acton
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
~ Anya Seton
The future is plump with promise.
~ Maya Angelou
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
~ Brian Herbert
There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
~ William Gibson
We have such an amazing future ahead of us.
~ Nikki Reed
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
~ William Browne
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.
~ Thomas Sowell
Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.
~ Walt Kelly
I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.
~ Augusten Burroughs
We are going to look at the results at the end of the semester to determine the future of the program. I am really eager to see what the scores look like on the end of the semester report cards.
~ Mark Martin
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
~ Samuel Alexander
One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.
~ Seth Godin
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
~ Leo Rosten
Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand
~ Confucius
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.
~ Daniel Schacter