Future quotes

Acheson Dean 1893-1971

The future comes one day at a time.

Anonymous

(forecasting advance of science in 1949)

Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

Aurelius Marcus 121-180

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.

Buchan John 1875-1940

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Don Juan

All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage;
The future states of both are left to faith.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Darwin Charles 1809-1882

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.

Davies Robertson 1913-1995

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Einstein Albert 1879-1955

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Glenn Jr. John H. 1921-

People are afraid of the future, of the unknown.
If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.

Greene Graham 1904-1991

The Power and the Glory

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Johnston Jennifer 1930-

People who haven't created a present for themselves, as the Irish haven't, cannot create a future, so the past assumes a great importance.

Kettering Charles F. 1876-1958

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936

„The Gods of the Copybook Headings"

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of
Man -
There are only four things certain since Social
Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow
returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes
wabbling back to the Fire.

Lardner Ring 1885-1933

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Lauder Sir Harry 1870-1950

The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.

Lippmann Walter 1899-1974

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

Orwell George 1903-1950

Nineteen Eighty-Four

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.

Pinero Sir Arthur Wing 1855-1934

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Rand Ayn 1905-1982

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Schopenhauer Arthur 1788-1860

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Scott F.R.