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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

One faces the future with one's past.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

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

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.