“Without a woman, there will be no hope in the near future.”

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”

“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”

“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

“Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.”

“We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university”

“You are also continuing the same path that was initiated by Imam Khomeini, since you have always supported the Palestinian people, and I hope that we will meet each other at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the near future.”

“When one is young, and seventeen is very young, one lives in the present. The future, even the near future, is cloaked in unreality.”

“When a woman forgets gossip, McGee, she is nearing the end of her road.”

“Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”