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God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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, 1899

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972