It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

The future is purchased by the present.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Dissents speak to a future age.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Life is anything but predictable.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.