That monster gave me nightmares, and I knew where my particular future lay.

In our hands lay the future of that world.

The future of mankind, they said, lay in space, where there was no environment to ruin.

Yet there was no help for it; his future lay here or nowhere.

Like the ancient Romans, you thought the only future lay with the organization in power.

There was never any doubt where his future lay.

The road, and my future, lay in front of me.

From then, he realized that, rather than being a trombonist, his future lay in writing music.

But in the West, the future of China lay waiting.

It was impossible to divine what future lay before them.