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Future Quotes


"A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport."


"On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world."


"The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands."


"Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers."


"We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future."


"We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther."


"I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next."



"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."


"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."


"I'm trying to think about the future and not be sad."



"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."


"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future."


"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."


"When all else is lost, the future still remains."


"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."


"Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off."



"I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment."


"Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present."



"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."



"Create your future from your future not your past."


"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens."


"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."


"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."


"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical."


"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it."


"A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future."


"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now."


"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."


"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."



"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."



"Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever."
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