future Quotes

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.”

― Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace

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“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

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“Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

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“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

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