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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
Emile M. Cioran on future

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
Emile M. Cioran on future

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
Marco Rubio on future

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.
Marco Rubio on future

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
Alan Rickman on future

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
Stephen Fry on future

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird on future

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on future

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia on future

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
Michael Palin on future

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere on future

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de la Bruyere on future

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
Thomas Sankara on future

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald on future

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler on future

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner on future

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson on future

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David Byrne on future

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl Lagerfeld on future

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
Anna Quindlen on future