Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Future
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
-Seth Godin
"Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?"
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
-Marcel Pagnol
Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.
-Francis Crick
"Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul"
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didn’t believe in that.
Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them.
It didn’t even know they were there.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
