Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
- Douglas Adams
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
- Madeleine Albright
When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.
- George Allen Sr
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
- Laurie Anderson
One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.
- Walter Truett Anderson
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- Tadao Ando
through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.
- Brother Andrew
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
- Oprah Winfrey
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
- Hermann Hesse
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.
- Max Lucado
So stop looking at the past and all the things you can't change. They're done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go. I told you once before, and I'll say it againthis is your life, Chase. Only you can decide what it's going to be like. Don't let outside forces dictate it for you.
- Lacey Weatherford
And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
- Will Arnett
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
- W H Auden
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
- Toni Cade Bambara
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future.
- Samuel Beckett
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Albert Camus
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
- Albert Camus
Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future
- Benny Bellamacina
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
- L M Montgomery
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
- John Steinbeck
I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.
- Melanie Benjamin
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
- Warren G Bennis
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.
- Georges Bernanos
Send message to the future by writing it today!
- Toba Beta
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
- Aneurin Bevan
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
- Jim Bishop
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
- Corrie Ten Boom
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
- Marshall Mcluhan
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
- Marshall Mcluhan
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F Kennedy
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
- David R Brower
At this rate, we'll never get to the future.
- Chuck Palahniuk
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
- George Burns
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
- George Burns
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
- Dan Quayle
I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
- Yancy Butler
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
- Nick Carter
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
- Giacomo Casanova
The land belongs to the future.
- Willa Cather
The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while.
- Willa Cather
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
- Joshua Chamberlain
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
- Dan Chaon
What if she never knows the end of the story? She shudders, and her mind continues to lurch forward into the future, that simple expectation of time passing - another moment, and another moment. It seems impossible that it will abruptly cease. It seems impossible that you will never know what happens next, that the thread you've been following your whole life will just... cut off, like a book with the last pages torn out. That doesn't seem fair, she thinks.
- Dan Chaon
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
- Arthur C Clarke
You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future
- Chris Cleave
The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?'
'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.
- David Clement Davies
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
- Bill Clinton
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
- Juan Cole
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
- Robert Conklin
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
- Mason Cooley
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Like everything else I'd seen at Xymos, it was jerry-built, half-baked, concocted in a hurry to solve present problems and never a thought to the future.
- Michael Crichton
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
- Ice Cube
There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.
- Ivica Dacic
Evolution never looks to the future.
- Richard Dawkins
To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.
- Jason Derulo
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.
- Stephen Dobyns
I want the key", he said. "The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It's there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can find it. That's what I want," he finished, softly. "I want the key.
- Jennifer Donnelly
The person who lives by his fears will not find freedom in my [God's] love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe that I [God] am good nor know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don't know it.
- W Paul Young
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
- Frederick Douglass
I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
- Matt Drudge
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
- Michel De Montaigne
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
- George Orwell
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink greetings!
- George Orwell
[Winston writes in his forbidden diary]
Winston Smith: April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings.
- George Orwell
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?
- Bret Easton Ellis
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.
- Harlan Ellison
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.
- Chris Evans
But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
- Colin Farrell
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
- Adam Ferguson
For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.
- Geraldine Ferraro
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something the eternal 'what's the use?' sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.
- Gustave Flaubert
I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
- Flavor Flav
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
- John Wooden
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future - sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.
- Viktor E Frankl
The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face of the age and had been so stunned by it that when he thought into the future, all he could vision was a world from which everything he had counted important had been banished or had willingly fled.
- Charles Frazier
Creativity is the catalyst to the future.
- Ann Marie Frohoff
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
- Stephen Fry
Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.
- Barack Obama
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
- Art Garfunkel
... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
- David Gemmell
What's so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they're overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.
- Daniel Gilbert
I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
- Nikki Giovanni
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
- Joseph Goebbels
Only a fool walks into the future backwards.
- Terry Goodkind
What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
- Sylvia Plath
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
- Andy Griffith
we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it is imaginary. And the more frightening the future is, the more complicated it seems to be, the more we steady ourselves with the past.
- Lauren Groff
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.
- David Guetta
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off.... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.
- Hugo Hamilton
Last Year Clare would have a lot to say to This Year Clare if she could have peeked into the future and seen me in Kendra Kiger's house. She'd probably slap me upside the head and say some variation of Hey, Future Clare, wtf?
- Kim Harrington
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
- Latoya Jackson
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.
- Sonya Hartnett
Seeing into the future is not a straight line. You are given the choice of a hundred paths through a treacherous swamp. Some will lead you safely onwards, others drown you, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which, my mother says.
- Cat Hellisen
In a thousand years," Alessandro said, "this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or a dragon that breathes fire...but we have given this rock a story that will be passed on."
"What good is that?"
"It isn't to our advantage, if that's what you mean. However, it's pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously. You never know, the line may be unbroken all the way to the last judgment.
- Mark Helprin
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
- Brad Henry
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
- Alexis Herman
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
- Alice Hoffman
Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.
- Jeffrey R Holland
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
- Mike Huckabee
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.
- King Hussein I
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
- John Hutton
It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.
- Lee Iacocca
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
- Joichi Ito
One writer said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. If we were to apply that maxim to our lives, we could say that we are the result of many small decisions. In effect, we are the product of our choices. We must develop the capacity to recall the past, to evaluate the present, and to look into the future in order to accomplish in our lives what the Lord would have us do.
- Thomas S Monson
If I asked God to see into the future 50 years, and I couldn't see myself, I wouldn't assume I was dead. No, I'd assume I was simply hiding.
- Jarod Kintz
The six squares of our love didn't add up to a cube. Still, I took the oddly-shaped box down to the post office and tried to mail it into the future, when I'd be more prepared to open it.
- Jarod Kintz
I wish I had a crystal bowl to see into the future with. Every morning I would eat my cereal out of it while I read tomorrow's newspaper.
- Jarod Kintz
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- Pauline Kael
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
- Mark Kennedy
Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
- Hamad Bin Isla Al Khalifi
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
- Nicole Kidman
Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future... eternal beauty.
- Masashi Kishimoto
He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it.
- Dean Koontz
I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
- Dean Koontz
It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.
- Wally Lamb
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
- Walter Savage Landor
Ah, gods, hope. Our savior and our tormentor, the price and ferry pass for the dreams that carry us to the future.
- Amy Lane
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
- Wilfrid Laurier
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
- D H Lawrence
I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers.
- Kristie Levangie
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
- Linda Lingle
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
- Walter Lord
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
- Sarah Manguso
There's life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it's actually a great way to leave, because it's giving Gavin the message that we haven't been defeated, we are up for it, we're young, we're in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence. When we round the corner of the driveway I take his hand and we run down to the gate together.
- John Marsden
Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.
- Don Mattingly
No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his child's mother, and believed they would move into the future together with love. The fact that they didn't was a weight each of us carried, as every child does, probably, whose parents no longer live under the same roof. Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
- Joyce Maynard
There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
- Scott Mccloud
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
- Margaret Mead
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
- Walter Russell Mead
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
- Barbara Mikulski
The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.
- Yukio Mishima
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.
- Christopher Moore
Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.
- Kate Morton
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down...
- Kate Morton
Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
- Brandon Mull
If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.
- Graeme Murphy
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
- Petra Nemcova
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
- Tim O Brien
And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
- Tim O Brien
Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
- Tim O Brien
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.
- Michael Ondaatje
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
- Neil Young
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.
- Robert Dale Owen
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
- Camille Paglia
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.
- Elizabeth Peters
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
- Leopold Von Ranke
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
- Lou Reed
In the old days, I'd never given a thought to the future, and not much to the past. I'd lived simply in the now. I'd been happy if I had enough to eat, and nobody was hitting me. I'd been miserable when I was cold and frightened when I was ill, but mostly I gave no more thought than an animal did to what might happen tomorrow, or next week. Just an animal walking about on two legs, that's all I was till Myrddin changed me. It seemd to me sometimes I'd been happier that way.
- Philip Reeve
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
- Erich Maria Remarque
I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those times. Surely you understand. You must understand. Do you look thousands of years into the future? Do you measure what's happening to you now by what may matter a thousand years hence? I was stumbling and lurching, groping and from time to time drowning, as any man might.
- Anne Rice
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
- Dana Rohrabacher
I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.
- Tim Scott
I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.
- Roman Sebrle
I focus my eyes on my jade bracelet. All these years and for all the years after I die, it will remain unchanged. It will always be hard and cold- just a piece of stone. Yet for me it is an object that ties me ot hte past, to people and places that are gone forever. Its continued perfection serves as a physical reminder to keep living, to look to the future, to cherish what I have. It reminds me to endure. I'll live one morning after another.
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- Lisa See
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
- Hun Sen
Nate shook his head with a crooked grin. You haven't gone Back to the Future, McFly.
- Elizabeth Sharp
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
- Li Ka Shing
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
- Clifford D Simak
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
- Rebecca Solnit
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
- Andrew Solomon
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
- Sophocles
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
- Harry Dean Stanton
I have been over into the future, and it works.
- Lincoln Steffens
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
- Mattie Stepanek
I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far greater than the movement of my eyes. You are here, I would say to myself, no part of this moment is melting into the future. You are only here and nowhere else. But I could never believe it. So I would take a photo to stop the world. So that I could keep moving
- Leah Stewart
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
- Joseph Stiglitz
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
- Lytton Strachey
When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta have your dreaming of you get lost..
- Gary Taaffe
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
- Ida Tarbell
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.
- Carrot Top
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
- Gianni Versace
Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.
- Troy Vincent
Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?
- Aleksandr Voinov
I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.
- Scott Walker
How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.
- James T Walsh
Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.
- J R Ward
Time keeps on...slippin'...slippin'...slippin' into the future, Adrian drawled as he walked around
- J R Ward
All items listed above belong in the world
In which all things are continuous,
And are parts of the original dream which
I am now trying to discover the logic of. This
Is the process whereby pain of the past in its pastness
May be converted into the future tense
Of joy.
I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision (1974)
- Robert Penn Warren
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
- Alan Watts
Buffy: Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you.
Angel: I know the feeling.
- Joss Whedon
If I could have looked into the future to see what I would have become, I wouldn't have become the person I was always meant to be.
- Lisa L Wiedmeier
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
- Charles Williams
I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.
- Michelle Williams
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
- Tom Wilson
I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.
- Jacqueline Woodson
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
- Irvin D Yalom
I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting myself into the future, clutching at and always failing to grasp the wisp of now.
- Charles Yu
but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.
- Michelle Zink
- Douglas Adams
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
- Madeleine Albright
When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.
- George Allen Sr
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
- Laurie Anderson
One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.
- Walter Truett Anderson
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- Tadao Ando
through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.
- Brother Andrew
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
- Oprah Winfrey
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
- Hermann Hesse
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.
- Max Lucado
So stop looking at the past and all the things you can't change. They're done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go. I told you once before, and I'll say it againthis is your life, Chase. Only you can decide what it's going to be like. Don't let outside forces dictate it for you.
- Lacey Weatherford
And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
- Will Arnett
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
- W H Auden
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
- Toni Cade Bambara
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future.
- Samuel Beckett
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Albert Camus
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
- Albert Camus
Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future
- Benny Bellamacina
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
- L M Montgomery
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
- John Steinbeck
I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.
- Melanie Benjamin
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
- Warren G Bennis
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.
- Georges Bernanos
Send message to the future by writing it today!
- Toba Beta
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
- Aneurin Bevan
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
- Jim Bishop
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
- Corrie Ten Boom
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
- Marshall Mcluhan
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
- Marshall Mcluhan
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F Kennedy
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
- David R Brower
At this rate, we'll never get to the future.
- Chuck Palahniuk
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
- George Burns
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
- George Burns
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
- Dan Quayle
I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
- Yancy Butler
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
- Nick Carter
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
- Giacomo Casanova
The land belongs to the future.
- Willa Cather
The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while.
- Willa Cather
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
- Joshua Chamberlain
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
- Dan Chaon
What if she never knows the end of the story? She shudders, and her mind continues to lurch forward into the future, that simple expectation of time passing - another moment, and another moment. It seems impossible that it will abruptly cease. It seems impossible that you will never know what happens next, that the thread you've been following your whole life will just... cut off, like a book with the last pages torn out. That doesn't seem fair, she thinks.
- Dan Chaon
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
- Arthur C Clarke
You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future
- Chris Cleave
The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?'
'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.
- David Clement Davies
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
- Bill Clinton
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
- Juan Cole
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
- Robert Conklin
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
- Mason Cooley
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Like everything else I'd seen at Xymos, it was jerry-built, half-baked, concocted in a hurry to solve present problems and never a thought to the future.
- Michael Crichton
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
- Ice Cube
There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.
- Ivica Dacic
Evolution never looks to the future.
- Richard Dawkins
To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.
- Jason Derulo
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.
- Stephen Dobyns
I want the key", he said. "The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It's there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can find it. That's what I want," he finished, softly. "I want the key.
- Jennifer Donnelly
The person who lives by his fears will not find freedom in my [God's] love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe that I [God] am good nor know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don't know it.
- W Paul Young
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
- Frederick Douglass
I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
- Matt Drudge
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
- Michel De Montaigne
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
- George Orwell
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink greetings!
- George Orwell
[Winston writes in his forbidden diary]
Winston Smith: April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings.
- George Orwell
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?
- Bret Easton Ellis
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.
- Harlan Ellison
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.
- Chris Evans
But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
- Colin Farrell
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
- Adam Ferguson
For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.
- Geraldine Ferraro
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something the eternal 'what's the use?' sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.
- Gustave Flaubert
I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
- Flavor Flav
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
- John Wooden
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future - sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.
- Viktor E Frankl
The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face of the age and had been so stunned by it that when he thought into the future, all he could vision was a world from which everything he had counted important had been banished or had willingly fled.
- Charles Frazier
Creativity is the catalyst to the future.
- Ann Marie Frohoff
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
- Stephen Fry
Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.
- Barack Obama
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
- Art Garfunkel
... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
- David Gemmell
What's so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they're overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.
- Daniel Gilbert
I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
- Nikki Giovanni
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
- Joseph Goebbels
Only a fool walks into the future backwards.
- Terry Goodkind
What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
- Sylvia Plath
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
- Andy Griffith
we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it is imaginary. And the more frightening the future is, the more complicated it seems to be, the more we steady ourselves with the past.
- Lauren Groff
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.
- David Guetta
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off.... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.
- Hugo Hamilton
Last Year Clare would have a lot to say to This Year Clare if she could have peeked into the future and seen me in Kendra Kiger's house. She'd probably slap me upside the head and say some variation of Hey, Future Clare, wtf?
- Kim Harrington
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
- Latoya Jackson
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.
- Sonya Hartnett
Seeing into the future is not a straight line. You are given the choice of a hundred paths through a treacherous swamp. Some will lead you safely onwards, others drown you, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which, my mother says.
- Cat Hellisen
In a thousand years," Alessandro said, "this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or a dragon that breathes fire...but we have given this rock a story that will be passed on."
"What good is that?"
"It isn't to our advantage, if that's what you mean. However, it's pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously. You never know, the line may be unbroken all the way to the last judgment.
- Mark Helprin
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
- Brad Henry
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
- Alexis Herman
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
- Alice Hoffman
Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.
- Jeffrey R Holland
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
- Mike Huckabee
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.
- King Hussein I
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
- John Hutton
It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.
- Lee Iacocca
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
- Joichi Ito
One writer said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. If we were to apply that maxim to our lives, we could say that we are the result of many small decisions. In effect, we are the product of our choices. We must develop the capacity to recall the past, to evaluate the present, and to look into the future in order to accomplish in our lives what the Lord would have us do.
- Thomas S Monson
If I asked God to see into the future 50 years, and I couldn't see myself, I wouldn't assume I was dead. No, I'd assume I was simply hiding.
- Jarod Kintz
The six squares of our love didn't add up to a cube. Still, I took the oddly-shaped box down to the post office and tried to mail it into the future, when I'd be more prepared to open it.
- Jarod Kintz
I wish I had a crystal bowl to see into the future with. Every morning I would eat my cereal out of it while I read tomorrow's newspaper.
- Jarod Kintz
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- Pauline Kael
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
- Mark Kennedy
Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
- Hamad Bin Isla Al Khalifi
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
- Nicole Kidman
Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future... eternal beauty.
- Masashi Kishimoto
He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it.
- Dean Koontz
I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
- Dean Koontz
It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.
- Wally Lamb
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
- Walter Savage Landor
Ah, gods, hope. Our savior and our tormentor, the price and ferry pass for the dreams that carry us to the future.
- Amy Lane
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
- Wilfrid Laurier
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
- D H Lawrence
I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers.
- Kristie Levangie
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
- Linda Lingle
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
- Walter Lord
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
- Sarah Manguso
There's life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it's actually a great way to leave, because it's giving Gavin the message that we haven't been defeated, we are up for it, we're young, we're in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence. When we round the corner of the driveway I take his hand and we run down to the gate together.
- John Marsden
Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.
- Don Mattingly
No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his child's mother, and believed they would move into the future together with love. The fact that they didn't was a weight each of us carried, as every child does, probably, whose parents no longer live under the same roof. Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
- Joyce Maynard
There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
- Scott Mccloud
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
- Margaret Mead
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
- Walter Russell Mead
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
- Barbara Mikulski
The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.
- Yukio Mishima
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.
- Christopher Moore
Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.
- Kate Morton
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down...
- Kate Morton
Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
- Brandon Mull
If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.
- Graeme Murphy
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
- Petra Nemcova
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
- Tim O Brien
And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
- Tim O Brien
Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
- Tim O Brien
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.
- Michael Ondaatje
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
- Neil Young
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.
- Robert Dale Owen
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
- Camille Paglia
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.
- Elizabeth Peters
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
- Leopold Von Ranke
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
- Lou Reed
In the old days, I'd never given a thought to the future, and not much to the past. I'd lived simply in the now. I'd been happy if I had enough to eat, and nobody was hitting me. I'd been miserable when I was cold and frightened when I was ill, but mostly I gave no more thought than an animal did to what might happen tomorrow, or next week. Just an animal walking about on two legs, that's all I was till Myrddin changed me. It seemd to me sometimes I'd been happier that way.
- Philip Reeve
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
- Erich Maria Remarque
I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those times. Surely you understand. You must understand. Do you look thousands of years into the future? Do you measure what's happening to you now by what may matter a thousand years hence? I was stumbling and lurching, groping and from time to time drowning, as any man might.
- Anne Rice
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
- Dana Rohrabacher
I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.
- Tim Scott
I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.
- Roman Sebrle
I focus my eyes on my jade bracelet. All these years and for all the years after I die, it will remain unchanged. It will always be hard and cold- just a piece of stone. Yet for me it is an object that ties me ot hte past, to people and places that are gone forever. Its continued perfection serves as a physical reminder to keep living, to look to the future, to cherish what I have. It reminds me to endure. I'll live one morning after another.
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- Lisa See
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
- Hun Sen
Nate shook his head with a crooked grin. You haven't gone Back to the Future, McFly.
- Elizabeth Sharp
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
- Li Ka Shing
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
- Clifford D Simak
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
- Rebecca Solnit
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
- Andrew Solomon
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
- Sophocles
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
- Harry Dean Stanton
I have been over into the future, and it works.
- Lincoln Steffens
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
- Mattie Stepanek
I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far greater than the movement of my eyes. You are here, I would say to myself, no part of this moment is melting into the future. You are only here and nowhere else. But I could never believe it. So I would take a photo to stop the world. So that I could keep moving
- Leah Stewart
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
- Joseph Stiglitz
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
- Lytton Strachey
When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta have your dreaming of you get lost..
- Gary Taaffe
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
- Ida Tarbell
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.
- Carrot Top
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
- Gianni Versace
Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.
- Troy Vincent
Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?
- Aleksandr Voinov
I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.
- Scott Walker
How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.
- James T Walsh
Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.
- J R Ward
Time keeps on...slippin'...slippin'...slippin' into the future, Adrian drawled as he walked around
- J R Ward
All items listed above belong in the world
In which all things are continuous,
And are parts of the original dream which
I am now trying to discover the logic of. This
Is the process whereby pain of the past in its pastness
May be converted into the future tense
Of joy.
I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision (1974)
- Robert Penn Warren
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
- Alan Watts
Buffy: Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you.
Angel: I know the feeling.
- Joss Whedon
If I could have looked into the future to see what I would have become, I wouldn't have become the person I was always meant to be.
- Lisa L Wiedmeier
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
- Charles Williams
I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.
- Michelle Williams
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
- Tom Wilson
I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.
- Jacqueline Woodson
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
- Irvin D Yalom
I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting myself into the future, clutching at and always failing to grasp the wisp of now.
- Charles Yu
but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.
- Michelle Zink
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