Time

"Dabit deus his quoque finem."

"Oogway: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present"."

"Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold."

"When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire."

"Istuc est sapere, non quod ante pedes modo est Videre, sed etiam illa, quæ futura sunt Prospicere."

"I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away."

"When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards ride no more."

"How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown."

"Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius."

"God, if Thy will be so, Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace, With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!"

"Etwas fürchten und hoffen und sorgen, Muss der Mensch für den kommenden Morgen."

"But there's a gude time coming."

"Quid crastina volveret ætas, Scire nefas homini."

"And better skilled in dark events to come."

"In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound."

"Could we but know The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel."

"There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see."

"The never-ending flight Of future days."

"Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit."

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

"The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it."

"Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus, Et certam præsens vix habet hora fidem."

"Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!"

"Le présent est gros de l'avenir."

"There's a good time coming, boys; A good time coming: We may not live to see the day, But earth shall glisten in the ray Of the good time coming. Cannon-balls may aid the truth, But thought's a weapon stronger; We'll win our battle by its aid, Wait a little longer."

"The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most."

"When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it—lie down for an æon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew."

"Nos duo turba sumus."

"Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quærere: et"

"There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat, So we lift our trusting eyes From the hills our Fathers trod: To the quiet of the skies: To the Sabbath of our God."

"Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus."

"Certis rebus certa signa præcurrunt."

"So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow."

"You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet."

"Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow, Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize At last the fleeting Now?"

"The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come."

"With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end."

"With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there … this place we call the Bosom of Abraham."

"'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before."

"Après nous le déluge."

"Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past."

"Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today."

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."

"My clients are the children; my clients are the next generation. They do not know what promises and bonds I undertook when I ordered the armies of the United States to the soil of France, but I know, and I intend to redeem my pledges to the children; they shall not be sent upon a similar errand."

"That what will come, and must come, shall come well."

"The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced."

"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"

"You can't fuck the future. The future fucks you! It catches up with you and it fucks you if you ain't planned for it!"

"My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer... and there are flying cars."