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"
Quotations
Future
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
-Meredith Wilson
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
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
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
-David Gerrold
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
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"
One today is worth two tomorrows.
-Benjamin Franklin
