Future History Quotes

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future. ~ Loretta Napoleoni

Events of future history will be of the same nature - or nearly so - as the history of the past, so long as men are men. ~ Thucydides

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books. ~ Vint Cerf

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes. ~ James Gleick

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ~ Winston S. Churchill

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ~ Henry Lawson

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology. ~ Robert Darnton

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. ~ Leopold Von Ranke

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past. ~ Arundhati Roy

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being. ~ Walter Wink

Changing Future History One Reader at a Time! ~ Henri Rast Former Chief Editor At Voyager Press

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future. ~ M.R. Gott

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die. ~ Saul Williams

The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic. ~ Annalee Newitz

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. ~ Habeeb Akande

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives. ~ Rachel Carson

We should use our imagination more than our memory. ~ Shimon Peres

I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his successes and advantages for Russia historians shall absolutely note the fact of his not altering the constitution, for he created a precedent. And afterwards, no matter who might become president, it shall be extremely difficult to alter the constitution exactly on that point. Extremely difficult. ~ Vladimir Posner

STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future. ~ Peter Capaldi

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. ~ Romeo LeBlanc

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present. ~ Paul McAuley

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows? ~ Stephen Fry

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

Today is the beginning of new history. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. ~ Paul Ryan

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history. ~ Edward M. Lerner

When we are "time traveling", we may trip over problems from the past which distort our memory. If we are weary of dealing with lost causes or lame ducks in our history, we have to make up our mind and give up destructive thinking patterns. At that juncture, time has come to go back to the future. ( "A glimpse of the future" ) ~ Erik Pevernagie

The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting. ~ Edward M. Lerner

The past has come apart
events are vagueing
the future is inexploitable ~ Mina Loy

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ~ Gregory Bateson

To measure time, one must begin. To grow futureward, one must root. Deep into the ground with blood. ~ Steven Erikson

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. ~ Eduard Shevardnadze

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future. ~ Ruud Gullit

Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the past and the present. It's what history and politics share - a vantage on the past - that makes writing the history of politics fraught. And it's what they don't share that makes the study of history vital. Politics is accountable to opinion; history is accountable to evidence. ~ Jill Lepore

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future. ~ Jim Lee

Then a man turned
And said to me: Although I love the past, the dark of it,
The weight of it teaching us nothing, the loss of it, the all
Of it asking for nothing, I will love the twenty-first century more ... ~ Mark Strand

You're mine now, Harry thought at the walls of Diagon Alley, and all the shops and items, and all the shopkeepers and customers; and all the lands and people of wizarding Britain, and all the wider wizarding world; and the entire greater universe of which Muggle scientists understood so much less than they believed. I, Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, do now claim this territory in the name of Science.
Lightning and thunder completely failed to flash and boom in the cloudless skies.
"What are you smiling about?" inquired Professor McGonagall, warily and wearily.
"I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution," explained Harry. He was carefully memorising the exact words of his ominous resolution so that future history books would get it right. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes. ~ Pete Sessions

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms. ~ J.G. Ballard

Truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. ~ Daniel Libeskind

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future. ~ Francois Hollande

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it? ~ Alex Steffen

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. ~ Joe Baca

It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done. ~ Mitch Landrieu

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. ~ Henri Poincare

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction. ~ Atifete Jahjaga

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon. ~ Jay S. Walker

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. ~ Boris Becker

History was once the future, the future will create history. ~ Daniel J. Hill

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers. ~ Preston Brooks

Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not just in terms of geography, but in terms of their culture and history. To be informed about where they're coming from and to have some glimpse towards a hopeful future. ~ James Howard Kunstler

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? ~ Robert Dale Owen

Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an understanding of our Western heritage and its lessons can be instrumental in helping us create new models for the future. For we are all creators of history, and the future of Western and indeed world civilization depends on us. ~ Jackson J. Spielvogel

No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. ~ Sarah MacLean

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers. ~ Andrew McCutchen

History is really a study of the future, not the past. ~ Arundhati Roy

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history. ~ Milan Kundera

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. ~ Anthony Liccione

The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit. ~ David Eisenhower

History shows you don't know what the future brings. ~ Rick Wagoner

Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States. ~ Mark Foley

Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future. ~ Mario J. Lucero

History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. ~ Robert Penn Warren

The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation. ~ Alexander Siddig

It's no longer history in the making.
It's our story we are making. ~ Natasha Tsakos

Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization. ~ Annalee Newitz

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. ~ Ruth Benedict

here's the thing
and I need you to take in
every word

when someone truly loves you
and I'm not talking about
that watered-down shit
that you got from every ex
who caused you nothing
but a great deal of emotional trauma

when someone really love you
and wants to be a part
of your life

they let go of their past
to better accommodate you
in their future

they don't hold on to past likes,
lusts, or loves
you'll never have to compete

with anyone they've had
history with
because those relations
no longer exist ~ R.H. Sin

By studying yesterday, you will understand today. ~ Suzy Kassem

Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believers and nonbelievers? What can it be based on now? Does an idea of the end, one that does not imply disinterest in the future but rather a constant examination of the errors of the past, have a critical function?

If not, it would be perfectly all right to accept the approach of the end, even without thinking about it, sitting in front of our TV screens (in the shelter of our electronic fortifications), waiting for someone to entertain us while meantime things go however they go. And to hell with what will come. ~ Umberto Eco

To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained. ~ Jason Derulo

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened. ~ Jerry Costello

In my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books. ~ Lisa Factora-Borchers

More than ever, we are dealing with the history of the masses, and no history of individuals. Less than ever, it is possible to predict the near future ... ~ Andrei I. Shingarev

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children ~ Philip Carr-Gomm

For us to change history, we first need to change the future. ~ Anthony Liccione

Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future. ~ Nick Harkaway

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming. ~ Haruki Murakami

My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History ~ Ahmed Farrag

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations. ~ Jello Biafra

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively. ~ Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal? ~ Henning Von Tresckow

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. ~ Scott McCloud

In the future history will be made only by us. ~ George W. Bush

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us. ~ Dirk Kempthorne

Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future. ~ Martin McGuinness

A nation that forgets its past has no future ~ Sir Winston Churchill

But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left. ~ Suzanne Young

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness. ~ Thomm Quackenbush

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future. ~ Nick Turse

One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions. ~ Deborah Ellis

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future. ~ Kevin Rudd