“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
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“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.”
“Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.”
“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”
“I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.”
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”
“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”
“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.”
“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
“Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”
“You can never plan the future by the past.”