Tom Clancy Quotes

History is totally unpredictable.

Nobody knows what the future holds.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

I do not know what the future holds for me.

Nobody knows the future.

Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

We have a lot of things to work through. But the American people need to have confidence that we're going to change things, but we're going to move us in to a direction of more decisions and more choices, and not a diminishing of responsibility and care that people are really relied upon.

I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

I don't know what the future holds.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.