“Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.”
“If you don t build your dream someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”
“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”
“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”
“People don t realize that the future is just now, but later.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
“It s being here now that s important. There s no past and there s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don t know if there is one.”
“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”
“And the open road rolled out in front of us.”