“Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.”

“…The right to self-determination refers to the right of a given population (usually a nation) to create its own future more or less free from external coercion, but within the limits of the historical realities with which it is faced.”

“The meaning of my total existence involves knowing the possibilities of my future as well as my past, where I'm going as well as where I've been.”

“You left me."
Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past.
He's prophesying our future.”

“Yes, well I had all my serious illnesses in late middle age. And now I'm just stuck, I'm afraid.”

“A French first name shows that you really want to belong. The family name refers to the civilization of the country of origin that is left behind. The French first name refers to the future.”

“That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.”

“Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view.”

“One faces the future with one's past.”

“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”