This is the use of memory: For liberationönot less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

Immortality will cometosuch as are fit for it, and he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

   Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedesbeforeus.It eludedusthen, but that's no matteröto-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further† And one fine morning† So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.9.

Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o  u' il y a le moins de matie'  re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense¤  e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet,16  Jan.

I was born†with ready-made parents and a sister and brother who had already begun their store of experience, inaccessible to me except through their language and the record, always slightly different, of our mother and father, and as each member of the family wasborn, each,ina sensewithmemories onloan, began to supply the individual furnishings of each Was-land, each Is-land, and the hopes and dreams of the Future.

-Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame
  To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.

The alcohol made the present enough, it held her in its golden hand, where past and future were comprehended, where nothing mattered, nothing was lost, where everything could be known and forgiven, where she herself could be whole at last.

-Gee, Maggie
  Lost Children, ch.35.

One cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech on the Reform Bill, House of Commons, 27  Apr.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Power and the Glory, pt.1, ch.1.

   In1914, Europe had arrived at a point at which every country except Germany was afraid of the present, and Germany was afraid of the future.

-Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount
  House of Lords, 24  Jul.

He has seen the future and it is hamburgers. See Steffens 814:6.

-Halberstam, David
 On Ray Kroc's decision to buy and expand the original McDonald's. The Fifties.

  Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

-Hofstadter, Richard
Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

   For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell,Jr
  'The Path of the Law', in the Harvard Law Review,10:469.

To try to talk to the young people who will run the futureöin ten minutesöis a little like trying to put a cantaloupe in a coke bottle.

-Jones,John Paul
   At Claremont College commencement. Reported in the NewYork Times, 29 May.

Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to Her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income.

-Kemble, Charles
When reluctantly obliged to pay overdue income tax. Attributed.

History teaches us that enmities between nations†do not last forever.Wemustconduct ouraffairsinsuchaway that it becomes in the communists' interests to agree on a genuine peace†to let each nation choose its own future, so long as that choice does not interfere with the choices of others. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Speech,  American University, Washington DC,10  Jun.

Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries.We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much to disdain the future now.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Speech to the West German Parliament, Frankfurt, 25  Jun.

I look forward to†a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint; its wealth with our wisdom; its power with our purpose.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Last major public speech,  Amherst College, 26 Oct.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Manö There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:ö That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'.

Les enfants n'ont ni passe¤   ni avenir, et, ce qui ne nous arrive gue'  re, ils jouissent du pre¤  sent. Children have neither past nor future. They live in the present, something which rarely happens to us.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  LesCaracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Del'homme', no.51.