It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

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

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

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.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

My future is righteousness.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

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.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I don’t have all the answers.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

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.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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

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

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

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

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

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

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

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