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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I do not know. But Gov. Romney never has.

Since we can not know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I did not really have time to think about anything in the future. I did not think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

But I think it is more that when you are young, you are invincible, you are immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you are inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It is fixed. You can not change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

It is been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I have just been holding my breath and praying... I am basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I do not know what the future holds.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it is time to really look at the future and not at the past.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

I do not have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

If other people want to talk about my future I can not control that.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Men do not come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We are looking across the room at you, and we do not care about your hopes and dreams. We do not care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.