Thoughts on tomorrow
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
—Zadie Smith
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
—Mary McCarthy
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
—Alan Turing
—Alan Turing
I think it has something to do with tomorrow: That there always is one, and that everything can change when it comes.
—Augusten Burroughs
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
—Kahlil Gibran
—Kahlil Gibran
After all, tomorrow is another day.
—Margaret Mitchell
The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
—Margaret Mitchell
—Douglas Coupland
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
—Dean Acheson
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
—Dean Acheson
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
—Matthew 6:34
—Dan Quisenberry
Someday we will try to do as many things as are possible.
—John Ashbery
Let us look forward, and let us go forward with confident, unhesitating tread.
—BC Forbes
Ah! The clock is always slow. It is later than you think.
—Robert W Service
—BC Forbes
—Robert W Service
(This story appears in the 17 February, 2017 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
