Publius Papinius Statius Quotes

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

You never know about life.

No one can predict the future.

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

The past is all we know of the future.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.