quotations about the future
I've seen the future and the future's nothing new.
THE ALTERNATE ROUTES
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"The Future's Nothing New"
Don't tell me about the future. I've been all over the future. Spend half my time there. It's the same as anywhere else. Anywhen else. Whatever. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Mostly Harmless
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
FRANK HERBERT
Children of Dune
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
DAN SIMMONS
The Rise of Endymion
The future was always more important than the past.
PAUL PARK
A Princess of Roumania
People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
GEORGE ORWELL
Partisan Review, Winter 1945
Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.
KELLY LINK
Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Welcome to the future.... All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.
IAIN M. BANKS
Matter
A wise man would ignore the future and drink and carouse while he still has an opportunity to enjoy this world.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Brisingr
The future? I hate it because I will not be there.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
"My Future Plans,", The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.
DENNIS GABOR
Inventing the Future
You glorify the past
When the future dries up.
U2
"God Part II"
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight--behind the veil of glittering constellations.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Think Big
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.... 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
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLER
Future Shock
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON
Calvin and Hobbes