“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”
— William Carey
“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”
— Norodom Sihamoni
“The future is now.”
— Nam June Paik
“I’d say I’m a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it’s a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere.”
— Isco
“I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.”
— John C. Stennis
“The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”
— Karl Rahner
“The future isn’t just a place you’ll go. It’s a place you will invent.”
— Nancy Duarte
“To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.”
— Red Auerbach
“It’s like real life: We don’t get a preview of what’s coming up, thank God, and we don’t build our own character from what we’re going to be informed with in the future.”
— Frances Conroy
“A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.”
— Charles Sanders Peirce
“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.”
— Robert Nozick
“The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.”
— Henepola Gunaratana
“You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.”
— Andy Griffith
“We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.”
— Ruth Benedict
“We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.”
— Pauline Neville-Jones
“Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God’s name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.”
— Richard Parks Bland
“If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you’ve got coming.”
— Robert Forster
“I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.”
— Wilfrid Laurier
“The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.”
— Dennis Weaver
“The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.”
— Janine Benyus
“Tomorrow is no man’s gift.”
— Gilbert Parker
“America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.”
— Ruben Hinojosa
“The future is always beginning now.”
— Mark Strand
“Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.”
— Samuel Alexander
“I’m excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.”
— Alonzo Mourning
“That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.”
— Jeff Miller
“Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.”
— Joichi Ito
“To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it’s the way we’re made.”
— Karen Thompson Walker
“Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.”
— Andrew J. Bernstein