“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
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“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
“With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.”
“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
“I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.”
“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.”
“I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.”
“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“The future ain't what it used to be.”
“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.”
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
“The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”