The dark-lit stream has drowned the Future and the Past.

-Thomas, (Philip) Edward
  'The Bridge'.

Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

-Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)
  Laboratories of the Spirit,'The Bright Field'.

'Future shock'†the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

-Toffler, Alvin
  Future Shock.

   I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.

-Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
  What is Art? (translated byV Tchertkoff).

Why are you doing it? What can you buy that you can't already afford? The future, Mr Gittes, the future.

-Towne, Robert
  Chinatown.

I have seen the future and it does not work. See Steffens 814:6.

-Toynbee, (Theodore) Philip
  Of the USA. In the Observer, 27 Jan.

Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

-Trollope, Anthony
  CanYou Forgive Her?, ch.24.

In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

-Warhol, Andy
Quoted in AndyWarhol, Kasper Ko«   nig, Pontus Hulte¤  n and Olle Granath (eds) AndyWarhol (1968).

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

-Weil, Simone
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (translated by Richard Rees,1968).

Books of poetry by young writersareusually promissory notes that are never met. Now and then, however, one comes across a volume that is so far above the average that one can hardly resist the fascinating temptation of recklessly prophesying a fine future for its author. Such a book Mr Yeats's Wanderings of Oisin certainly is. Here we find nobility of treatment and nobility of subject- matter, delicacy of poetic instinct and richness of imaginative resource.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  In the Pall Mall Gazette,12 Jul.

The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

-Wordsworth,William
  'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12^14 (published1842).

   Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow's discovery they would make it.

-Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron
  In the Daily Mirror.