Quotations - Future


A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~ Eric Hoffer.

And in today already walks tomorrow. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. ~ Kehlog Albran.

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. ~ Author Unknown.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~ Ruth Benedict.

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

The future is always beginning now. ~ Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving.

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~ Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957.

The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~ Destin Figuier.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~ Charles F. Kettering.

You can never plan the future by the past. ~ Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly".