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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~
is the period of time after the present, or the events that will occur in that time.
The future isn't written. It can be changed. You know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be. ~ Doc
(played by Christopher Lloyd) in
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ~
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ~
Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you -- be futurewise. ~
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it. ~
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. ~
If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one. ~
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. ~
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. ~
The future is not what is coming at us, but what we are headed for. ~
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. ~
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. ~
of drastic
who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a
that no longer exists. ~
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to. ~
We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves. ~
The future exists and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty. ~
Look not mournfully into the P it comes not back again. Wisely improve the P it is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. ~
The future is a world limited by ourselves. ~
The wave of the
is coming and there is no fighting it. ~
We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward. ~
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present. ~
We must discipline ourselves to convert dreams into plans, and plans into goals, and goals into those small daily activities that will lead us, one sure step at a time, toward a better future. ~ Jim Rohn
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. ~
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the . ~
Stop haunting your past and try to drop in on the future. ~
Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. T the future, for which I really worked, is mine. ~
Whatever the future may bring, the universal application of these great principles is fully assured, though it may be long in coming. ~
It is the business of the fu and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. ~
define our : each choice, each , a moment in the ripple of . Enough ripple, and you
the tide... for the future is never truly set. ~ Prof. Charles Xavier/Professor X
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. ~
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
, Meditations.
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
, Beyond 1984: The People Machines. (1979).
You can never plan the future by the past.
, letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791).
I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise. We live in a peaceful, prosperous time, but we can make it better. For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by
for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future
you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.
Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy through the door to freedom. Men and women of the world move toward free markets through the door to prosperity. The people of the world agitate for free expression and free thought through the door to the moral and intellectual satisfactions that only liberty allows.
We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.
, Inaugural Address (1989), Washington, D. C. (20 January 1989)
I I do not
what is ahead. For our
are large, but our
is larger. Our
are great, but our
is . And if our flaws are , 's
. Some see leadership as high drama, and the sound of trumpets calling, and sometimes it is that. But I see history as a book with many pages, and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. The new breeze blows, a page turns, the story unfolds. And so today a chapter begins, a small and stately story of unity, diversity, and generosity — shared, and written, together.
, Inaugural Address (1989), Washington, D. C. (20 January 1989)
here...or I am the future.
, ; , 1991.
The future will soon be a thing of the past.
, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001), p. 260.
If you are living in the
or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the .
in Simply Transcribed : Quotations from Fausto Cercignani (2013) by Brian Morris, p. 9.
Our yesterdays present irre it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
, My Utmost for His Highest (1956). Section "December 31".
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
, speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943, in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations(1999), Knowles & Partington, p. 215.
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
, Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 .
I've seen the future, it is murder.
, The Future.
Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be only?
Men will seem to see new destructions in the sky. The flames that fall from it will seem to rise in it and to fly from it with terror. They will hear every kind of animals speak in human language. They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness. O! marvel of the human race! What madness has led you thus! You will speak with animals of every species and they with you in human speech. You will see yourself fall from great heights without any harm and torrents will accompany you, and will mingle with their rapid course.
, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XX Humorous Writings, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.
Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you -- be futurewise.
, Futurist and author, Futurewise .
Whatever the future may have in store for us, one thing is certain... Human
will never go backward. When a
once gets abroad in the , no
can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the
of the world... Now that it has got fairly fixed in the minds of the few, it is bound to become fixed in the minds of the many, and be supported at last by a great cloud of witnesses, which no man can number and no power can withstand.
(31 March 1888).
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, Chapter 4.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
, Attributed in
to an interview on the Belgenland (December 1930), which was the ship on which he arrived in New York that month. According to The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2010), , the quote also appears as "Aphorism, " in the Einstein Archives 36-570. Calaprice speculates that "perhaps it was recalled later and inserted into the archives under the later date." According to a snippet on Google Books, the phrase '"I never think of the future," he said. "It comes soon enough."' appears in The Literary Digest: Volume 107 on p. 29, in an article titled "We May Not 'Get' Relativity, But We Like Einstein" from . The
also discusses the "welcome to Professor Einstein on the Belgenland" in New York.
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
, Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands (1948).
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be .
, Inventing the Future (1963)
Frequently paraphrased as:
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
. . Quote Investigator (). Retrieved on . Cites:
1963 March 28, New Scientist, "Books: How to be dignified though useless, by Nigel Calder, [Review of “Inventing the future” by Dennis Gabor]", Page 712, Column 2, published by Reed Business Information: ""
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
(1971) ; also Stanford Engineering, Volume 1, Number 1, Autumn 1989, pg 1-6
Similar remarks are attributed to
(, citation actually "")
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the .
has given me no
over the moment following.
, in Anthony Parel Gandhi, Freedom, and Self-rule, Lexington Books, 1 January 2000, p. 59
, the future isn't written. It can be changed. You know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be.
Doc , (played by ,
(1990), screenplay by
If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
, Swan Song (1928), Part II, Chapter 6.
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
, is reported to have first said this in an interview on Fresh Air, NPR (31 August 1993) {}, he repeated it, prefacing it with "As I've said many times…" in . See also .
The Great Western Disease is that we fixate on the future at the expense of enjoying the life we're living now.
(2010), What Got You Here Won't Get You There. p. 81
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
, "The Power of One", Time Magazine (August 26, 2002).
As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. S some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren.
"Then & Now: Jane Goodall", CNN (June 19, 2005)
Le futur n'est pas ce qui vient vers nous, mais ce vers quoi nous allons
The future is not what is coming at us, but what we are headed for.
(Le Genèse de l'idée du temps), translation by .
Even if some different theory is discovered in the future, I don’t think time travel will ever be possible. If it were, we would have been overrun by tourists from the future by now. **
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of
is that way.
In a time of drastic
it is the learners who inherit the . The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a
that no longer exists.
, Reflections on the Human Condition (1973), Section 32
The way I see it is that there're two types of people: those who spend their lives trying to build a future, and those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past.
Dan Houser, Michael Unsworth, Rupert Humphries Max Payne 3.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
, Letter to
(1 August 1816).
The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization….
The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.
It is a place where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.
But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
, remarks at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (May 22, 1964). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–64, book 1, p. 704.
It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
(1960) p. 94
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
Alan Kay in 1984 in his paper Inventing the Future which appears in The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Karen Prendergast.. As quoted by Eugene Wallingford in a post entitled
on November 06,
PM at the website of the Computer Science section of the University of Northern Iowa.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
, , delivered on 15 July 1960 to the
There may be those who wish to hear more--more promises to this group or that--more harsh rhetoric about the men in the Kremlin--more assurances of a golden future, where taxes are always low and subsidies ever high. But my promises are in the platform you have adopted--our ends will not be won by rhetoric and we can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.
, , delivered on 15 July 1960 to the
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
, State of the Union address, January 30, 1961. The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 23.
You know, you read about the future. You can't help that. I don't look upon the future. I am not a politician. I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.
, "Mr. Kettering's Talk", News and Views, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, General Exchange Insurance Corporation, Motors Insurance Corporation, 1936,
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there, and I would like it to be a nice place, polished, bright, glistening, and glorious.
Quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering, by T. A. Boyd 1957, pp. 3–4 (, )
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Common, since 1947; example: Instruments and Control Systems, Volume 20, 1947,
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), chapter 3, p. 80.
The future: a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants, and the humans who dared to help them, fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path, destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change ourselves... change our fate? Is the future truly set? The past: a new and uncertain world. A world of endless possibilities and infinite outcomes. Countless choices define our fate: each choice, each moment, a moment in the ripple of time. Enough ripple, and you change the tide... for the future is never truly set.
Prof. Charles Xavier/Professor X (played by Patrick Stewart,
(2014), screenplay by Simon Kinberg
Every feeling that looks to the future e for life is never so low or so little as when it concentrates itself on the present. The miserable wants, the small desires, and the petty pleasures of daily existence have nothing in common with those mighty dreams which, looking forward for action and action's reward, redeem the earth over which they walk with steps like those of an angel, beneath which spring up glorious and immortal flowers. The imagination is man's noblest and most spiritual faculty ; and that ever dwells on the to-come.
Francesca Carrara (1834), Vol III, page 161
Not to the present is our hour confined,
The great and shadowy future is assigned
To be the glorious empire of the mind.
The past was once the future, and it wrought
In the high presence of on-looking thought ;
All that we have, was by its efforts brought.
To-day creates to-morrow, and the tree
Of good or ill grows in past hours, what we
Make for the future — certain is to be.
(1838), Vol III. Chapter 8
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burke's words, a man to his country with "ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." That is why young men die in battle for their country's sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.
, Essays in the Public Philosophy (1955), chapter 3, part 2, p. 36. The quotation is from Edmund Burke's speech on "Conciliation with America" (1775).
The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.
(Barry Long Books, 1996).
Look not mournfully into the P it comes not back again. Wisely improve the P it is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
, Hyperion (1839).
If someone who knew the future, pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives... could you then kill that child?
, , "Genesis of the Daleks" written by Terry Nation
Our immediate task, however, is the critical work of confronting . As I've said, we've passed through an era of profo now we cannot afford half-measures, and we cannot go back to the kind of risk-taking that leads to bubbles that inevitably bust. So we have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
, In aspeech to joint session of Congress, (september. 9, 2009).
Can omniscient God, who
Knows the future, find
The Omnipotence to
Change His future mind?
in: , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jan 16, 2008, p. 101.
The past a but the past wears the widow' the future, the virgin's.
, as quoted in Treasury of Thought (1872) by Maturin M. Ballou, p. 521.
Whenever the rate of return on capital is significantly and durably higher than the growth rate of the economy, it is all but inevitable that inheritance (of fortunes accumulated in the past) predominates over saving (wealth accumulated in the present). ... The inequality r & g in one sense implies that the past tends to devour the future: wealth originating in the past automatically grows more rapidly, even without labor, than wealth stemming from work, which can be saved. Almost inevitably, this tends to give lasting disproportionate importance to inequalities created in the past, and therefore to inheritance.
(2013), p. 377.
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
, The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics (1931).
We must discipline ourselves to convert dreams into plans, and plans into goals, and goals into those small daily activities that will lead us, one sure step at a time, toward a better future.
Jim Rohn, Five Major Pieces To the Life Puzzle (1991).
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
, as quoted in Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, It Seems to Me: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001), p. 2.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944–45 (1950), p. 616, which states: "This is the latest draft of the President's proposed speech [for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945]. The last sentence [quoted above] was written into the typed draft in his own hand. The draft w the preparation of the final draft was prevented by death."
Having granted the excellence of these maxims, I come to certain points in which I do not believe that one can grant either the superlative wisdom or the superlative goodness of Christ as depicted in the Gospels... there one does find some things that do not seem to be very wise. For one thing, he certainly thought that His second coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at that time. There are a great many texts that prove that. He says, for instance, "Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come." Then he says, "There are some standing here which shall not taste death till the Son of Man comes into His kingdom"; and there are a lot of places where it is quite clear that He believed that His second coming would happen during the lifetime of many then living. That was the belief of His earlier followers, and it was the basis of a good deal of His moral teaching. When He said, "Take no thought for the morrow," and things of that sort, it was very largely because He thought that the second coming was going to be very soon, and that all ordinary mundane affairs did not count. I have, as a matter of fact, known some Christians who did believe that the second coming was imminent. I knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden. The early Christians did really believe it, and they did abstain from such things as planting trees in their gardens, because they did accept from Christ the belief that the second coming was imminent. In that respect, clearly He was not so wise as some other people have been, and He was certainly not superlatively wise.
, Why I am not a Christian (1927), "Defects in Christ's Teaching".
I am interested in a phase that I think we are entering. I call it " evolution," evolution with a purpose. The idea of evolution by design, designing the future, anticipating the future. I think of the need for more
in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had , but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will gro
Speak then to me.
, , Act I, Sc. 3, L. 58.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last sylla and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and t it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
"So you've been over into Russia?" said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been over into the future and it works."
, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931, reprinted 1958), vol. 2, chapter 18, p. 799. Steffens had made his second trip to Russia in 1919, as part of a mission sent by President Woodrow Wilson.
With the way the world’s going a nuclear Iran is going to be the least of our problems in 10 or 15 years. Iranian nukes will be a break from swimming through our climate-change flooded cities fighting ebola zombies with our teeth because we can’t hold guns thanks to our iPhone-shaped hand tumors.
The Daily Show July 21st 2015
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the .
, Speech, Richmond, Virginia (20 September 1952).
...stop haunting your past and try to drop in on the future.
. Pereira Maintains, p. 146.
Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. T the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
, On patent controversies regarding the
and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petkovi? in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73
 ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230
I have obtained... spark discharges extending through more than one hundred feet and carrying currents of one thousand amperes, electromotive forces approximating twenty million volts, chemically active streamers covering areas of several thousand square feet, and electrical disturbances in the natural media surpassing those caused by lightning, in intensity.
Whatever the future may bring, the universal application of these great principles is fully assured, though it may be long in coming. With the opening of the first power plant, incredulity will give way to wonderment, and this to ingratitude, as ever before.
in Electrical World and Engineer (7 January 1905) .
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
, "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934).
The future is too interesting and
to any predictable, reliable agency. We
all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the
unpredictability and total improbability of our
. That way we can keep open all the , as we have in the .
, , "Computers, p. 113 (1974)
Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.
, Future Shock (1970), Chapter 15.
"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.
, address to convention of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Germany, 1893; reported in Reinhard Bendix, Max Weber (1960), p. 53.
You can't fuck the future. The future fucks you! It catches up with you and it fucks you if you ain't planned for it!
, through the main character Tony Manero in the motion picture
My visions of the
are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer... and there are flying cars.
TV Guide (27 December – 2 January 2004), and Foreword to Fray
It is the business of the fu and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.
My clie my clients are the next generation. They do not know what promises and bonds I undertook when I ordered the armies of the United States to the soil of France, but I know, and I intend to redeem my ple they shall not be sent upon a similar errand.
, address in Pueblo, Colorado (September 25, 1919); reported in Albert Shaw, ed., The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1924), vol. 2, p. 1127.
The future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
, Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970).
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 304-06.
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
, Light of Asia (1879), Book VI, line 274.
Making all futures fruits of all the pasts.
, Light of Asia (1879), Book V, line 432.
Some day Love shall claim his own
Some day Right ascend his throne,
Some day hidden T
Some day—some sweet day.
, Some Sweet Day.
The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong,
But God's time is our harvest time,
And that is sure to come.
, Our Better Day.
Dear Land to which D
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
At last the fleeting Now?
, Corn Flowers, Book I. The First Violets.
You can never plan the future by the past.
, letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Volume IV, p. 55.
With mortal crisis doth portend,
My days to appropinque an end.
, Hudibras (1664), Part I, Canto III, line 589.
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.
, Lochiel's Warning.
Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.
Certain signs precede certain events.
, De Divinatione, I. 52.
* * * So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
, Death of Wallenstein, Act V, scene 1.
There shall be no more snow
No weary noontide heat,
So we lift our trusting eyes
From the hills our Fathers trod:
To the quiet of the skies:
To the Sabbath of our God.
, Evening Song of the Tyrolese Peasants.
Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
, Carmina, I. 9. 13.
Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
, Carmina, III. 29. 29.
You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.
, To His Orphan Grandchildren.
With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there … this place we call the Bosom of Abraham.
, Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades. Homer, Odyssey, VI. 42.
When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.
, When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted.
Le présent est gros de l'avenir.
The present is big with the future.
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
, A Psalm of Life.
There's a good time coming,
A good time coming:
We may not live to see the day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
Of the good time coming.
Cannon-balls may aid the truth,
But thought'
We'll win our battle by its aid,
Wait a little longer.
, The Good Time Coming.
The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.
, Joyzelle, Act I.
Take therefore no th for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew, VI. 34.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
, The Wave of the Future (1940).
The never-ending flight
Of future days.
(), Book II, line 221.
There was the Door to which I
There was the Veil through which I might not see.
(1120), Stanza 32. (Later ed.) FitzGerald's translation.
Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.
The hunter follows things he leaves them and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.
, Amorum (16 BC), Book II. 9. 9.
Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus,
Et certam praesens vix habet hora fidem.
Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.
, Epistolae Ex Ponto, IV. 3. 49.
Nos duo turba sumus.
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
, Metamorphoses, I. 355.
Après nous le déluge.
After us the deluge.
Mme. Pompadour. After the battle of Rossbach. See Larousse, Fleurs Historiques. Madame de Hausset, Memoirs. (Ed. 1824), p. 19. Also attributed to Louis XV by the French. Compare Cicero, De Finibus, XI. 16.
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n,
That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 85.
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound,
And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
, Messiah, line 47.
And better skilled in dark events to come.
, The Odyssey, Book V. 219.
Etwas fürchten und hoffen und sorgen,
Muss der Mensch für den kommenden Morgen.
Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow.
, Die Braut von Messina.
But there's a gude time coming.
, Rob Roy, Chapter XXXII.
Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
, Epistolae Ad Lucilium, XCVIII.
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
(1599), Act III, scene 1, line 111.
God, if Thy will be so,
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
(c. 1591), Act V, scene 5, line 32.
Quid crastina volveret aetas,
Scire nefas homini.
Man is not allowed to know what will happen to-morrow.
, Thebais, III. 562.
Could we but know
The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel.
, Undiscovered Country.
When the Rudyards cease from Kipling
And the Haggards ride no more.
, Lapsus Calami.
When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.
Suetonius. Quoting Nero. Nero. 38. Quoted by Milton from Tiberius in his Church Government, Book I, Chapter V. Tiberius, quoting an unknown Greek poet. See note of Leutsch, Appendix II. 56, to Proverbs LVIII. 23. , Fragment Inc. B, XXVII.
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
, Bedouin Song.
Istuc est sapere, non quod ante pedes modo est
Videre, sed etiam illa, quae futura sunt
Prospicere.
That is to be wise to see not merely that which lies before your feet, but to foresee even those things which are in the womb of futurity.
, Adelphi, III. 3. 32.
I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says, I
I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.
, Colin and Lucy.
Dabit deus his quoque finem.
God will put an end to these also.
(29-19 BC), I. 199.
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