Quotes by Subject: The Future & The Past
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Wait for that wisest of counselors, Time. | |||
Never make forecasts, especially about the future. | |||
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. | |||
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | |||
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. | |||
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. | |||
You can only predict things after they have happened. | |||
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present. | |||
I don't describe the future. I try to prevent it. | |||
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. | |||
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. | |||
Wait for that wisest of counselors, Time. | |||
The past is a different country. The do things differently there. | |||
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. | |||
If you wait long enough, your future will reveal itself. | |||
These are the good old days. | |||
The future ain't what it used to be. | * | ||
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. | |||
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. | |||
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold. | * | ||
The great French Marhsall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!" | * | ||
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | * | ||
There is no data on the future. | |||
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. | |||
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it. | |||
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. | |||
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. | |||
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived. | |||
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. | * | ||
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. | * | ||
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. | |||
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. | |||
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. | * | ||
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. | |||
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. | |||
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. | |||
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. | |||
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. | |||
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. | |||
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. | |||
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. | |||
The choice in this election is not between regions or religions or genders. It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old, and it's not about black versus white. This election is about the past versus the future. | * | ||
The fates are vicious and they`re cruel. You learn too late you`ve used two wishes like a fool. | * | ||
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