Think of the future, she whispers. Jumbled images in primary colours. White and red swastika flags waving in the wind; gleaming rockets flying into the air; skyscrapers rise above the Danube, the...

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

I can't take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

There is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

It's alright, you know... To love him... Please, child, do you think I don't know you at all? I'm not going to say there is some easy future for you, or even any future at all. I only want you not to...

The future is bright like the morning sun.

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't...

Without a scientist, there is no future. The handsome and attractive characters may earn society's admiration, but all the wonderful inventions related to the future are the result of the work of...

Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.

There's been terrible things we've seen, haven't there? And more likely to come, more than likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.

Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might - have - beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?

Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving...

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it's okay that my future is unknown. And maybe," I say with another smile, "it's okay to be inspired by the people who do know...

Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in...

Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me...

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy,...

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.