Quotes About Future

The next two or three days dragged by heavily. The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Joan had gained her feet. But the girl had not tried to make an escape. I'll not leave you, Captain Future! she cried pluckily. Don't be a fool! Curt cried, his gray eyes blazing. You can't... Captain Future! screamed the girl. Behind you- Curt whirled. But too late. Jovians who had rushed around to get at him from behind now leaped up upon him.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

More clearly than almost any other statesman he beheld the grandeur of the nation loom up, vast and shadowy, through the coming years.

T]he one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men.

We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.

As he waved at grizzled old Southerners, and they in turn waved the Stars and Stripes back at him, Roosevelt reflected that only thirty-three years before these men had been enemies of the Union.44 It took war to heal the scars of war; attack upon a foreign power to bring unity at home. But what future war would heal the scars of this one?

I still feel like a young girl, as though everything is about to happen.

I hear stories. It could be myself telling them to myself or it could be these murmurs that come out of the earth. The earth so old and haunted, so hungry and replete. It talks. Things past and things yet to be.

The most encompassing view of interest is contained in the notion of interest as the 'time value of money' or, simply, as the price of time.

Hans Stefan Santesson's science fiction-mystery anthology Crime Prevention in the 30th Century

the most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.

The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.

Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.

For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the future.

Never put off until the next million years what you can do during this million.

While we seek to fill up life in a way that will best secure the ends of our existence here, our whole plan and course of action should be such as will not hinder but serve our preparation for a future world.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.