George Orwell Quotes

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Although the world has changed dramatically since 1843, we believe that the values that guide 'The Economist' are as relevant as ever.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

We can't predict the future.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

The past is another planet.

I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

The future is always here in the past

Many times I feel different like a different person.

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.