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I give you a toast – here’s to our future, which now shows every sign of being exactly like our past. Rumpole of the Bailey s1e4: Rumpole and the Married Lady, Rumpole to Hilda
The future is shit, just like the past. Game of Thrones s5e1: The Wars to Come, Tyrion Lannister, HBO 2015
I still have faith in the future. Martin Luther King, cited King in the Wilderness, Sky Atlantic 2018
The only living life is in the past and future … the present is an interlude … strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness we are living. Eugene O’Neill, Strange Interlude, 1928
None would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
And, from the dregs of life, think to receive,
What the first sprightly running could not give. John Dryden, 1631-1700, Aureng-Zebe
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. T S Eliot
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory 1940
The secrets of our future, our fate, may be found in the work of Leonardo da Vinci ... The ultimate Renaissance man. Brad Meltzer’s Decoded s2e9: Da Vinci, History 2011
The future is so much more interesting than the past, don’t you think? Minority Report 2002 starring Tom Cruise & Colin Farrell & Max von Sydow & Steve Harris & Neal McDonough & Samantha Morton & Partick Kilpatrick & Jessica Capshaw & Louis Smith et al, director Steven Spielberg, Doctor to Cruise
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present. Robert F Kennedy
Let us not despair but act. 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. John F Kennedy
And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future. John F Kennedy, June 1963
For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do ... It is a time, in short, for a new generation of leadership – new men to cope with new problems and new opportunities ... and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier – the frontier of the 1960s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. John F Kennedy, acceptance speech July 1960
We can’t send you back. It’s not the transporter, it’s you. You know what the future looks like. If anybody else finds out, they can change the course of it, destroy it. Star Trek s1e19: Tomorrow is Yesterday, Kirk to ’60s man
She [Tasha] was sent there by you from the future. Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e1: Redemption II, Tasha’s daughter
We’re from the future. Exactly one day in the future. Star Trek: Voyager s1e4: Time And Again, Janeway
The future is just waiting to be exploited. Star Trek: Voyager s3e9: Future’s End II, Janeway to Starling
Tuvok’s premonitions were real: you are from the future. Star Trek: Voyager s6e23: Fury, Janeway to Kes
We intend to sing the love of danger. The habit of energy and fearlessness ... We will glorify war – the world’s only hygiene – Militarism, patriotism, destructive gesture of freedom bringers ... Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto 1909
I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future. Mike Tyson
I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me. Guus Hiddink
Without forgiveness, there’s no future. Desmond Tutu
The Web-Bot Project: this program scans the world-wide web for hints about the future and reports back with prophecies that are as ambiguous as the oracles of the ancient world. And just as chilling. Decoding the Past s3e5: Doomsday 2012 The End of Days, History 2007
I would say that is was a pretty safe bet that one magic wish most people would like to be granted would be to see into the future, James Burke, Connections s1e2: Death in the Morning, BBC 1978
The future may not be quite so gloomy. Professor Hans Rosling, Don’t Panic – The Truth About Population, BBC 2013
I know absolutely nothing about where I’m going. I’m fine with that. I’m happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn’t really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It’s all blank pages waiting to be written on. It’s all about going forward. It’s all about uncertainty and possibilities. Gregory Galloway, As Simple as Snow
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
The turn of the century raises expectations. The end of the millennium promises apocalypse and revelation. But at the close of the twentieth century the golden age seems behind us, not ahead. The end game of the 1990s promises neither nirvana nor Armageddon, but entropy. Robert Hewison, Future Tense 1990
‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ George Orwell, 1984
Always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever. ibid.
The future will be better tomorrow. Dan Quayle
For I dipped into the Future, far as the human eye could see: saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1842