I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Quotes
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCWe must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC