“Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!”
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“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
“Africa has no future.”
“We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.”
“A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.”
“The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.”
“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.”
“Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”
“Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.”
“Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.”
“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”
“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”
“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.”
“Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.”
“We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.”
“I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.”
“It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.”
“Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.”
“I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.”
“I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.”
“If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.”
“I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.”
“I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.”
“If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.”