Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the prese...
We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desir...
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at l...
Hank McCoy: I probably shouldn't be asking this sort of thing... but in the future, do I make it? [pause] Logan: No... but we can change that, right?
Young Doc: Nice talking to you. Maybe we'll bump into each other sometime again in the future. Older Doc: Or in the past.
The future never happens; there will always be a future.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
I got a bright future ahead of me.
Doc: Marty, why are you wearing that gun? You're not considering going up against Tannen tomorrow? Marty McFly: Doc, tomorrow morning, I'm going back to the future with you. But if Buford Tannen comes looking for trouble, I'm gonna be ready for him. ...
[first lines] Professor X: The future: a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants, and the humans who dared to help them, fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path, destined to destroy ours...
When men speak of the future, the gods laugh.
The future struggles against being mastered.
Learn about the future by looking at the past.
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
Success is the greatest teacher for future success.
I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just li...
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evid...
Doc: [reading a letter his future self wrote] I never knew I could write anything so touching. Marty McFly: I know, Doc, it's beautiful.
Young Doc: Well, good luck for both of our sakes. See you in the future. Marty McFly: You mean the past. Young Doc: Exactly!
