Future Quotes - Page 29

Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

Anthony Liccione

Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.

Toba Beta

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris

And then his lips were on mine and we were in it, pulling away from the past and rushing fast into the future.

The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

Gustave Flaubert

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

Jay Asher

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

The future is in the skies.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

Shannon A. Thompson

I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your future.

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

Charles Bukowski

What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we’re sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we’ll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.

One of the things that therapists do if you are suicidal, like a trick, is ask you about the future. They want to know what your plans are. Do you want to be the president? Do you want to be a rock star? They want to know if you want to live later even if you want to die now.

There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering Foundation

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIncreasing freedomIncreasing mutualismIncreasing beautyIncreasing sentienceIncreasing structureIncreasing evolvability

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

Robert J. Sawyer

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars. And really, that was enough.

Melissa Landers

All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.

Jessica Therrien

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

Haruki Murakami

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Haruki Murakami

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materialises. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals - you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

L.M. Montgomery

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Rodman Philbrick

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Peter F Drucker

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.

Jackson Burnett

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