Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
John Naisbitt

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
John Naisbitt

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
Yoko Ono

It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
Dale Earnhardt

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. Kissinger

One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston Bachelard

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.
Hermann Goering

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray Bradbury

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. Clarke