God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Quotes
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, 1899Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCThe future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCOften the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCThe future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972