Quotes about the future

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“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“You're always free to change your mind
and choose a different future, or a different past.”

“When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.”

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”

“Looking at him, she saw her future and felt all the ragged tears in her heart heal themselves. "I fit," she whispered in marvel, stepping into him. "I fit with you."
He nodded and wrapped his arms around her.
"Perfectly”

“Percy grunted. ‘Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo’s powers.”

“This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

“And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.”

“no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. i will always be yours.”

“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”

“You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

“A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.”

“It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.”

“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”

“God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.”

“The future for me is already a thing of the past.”

“The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.”

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”

“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”

“Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.”

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”

“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.”

“All I could think was that right there, in ever passing second, was the future winding itself own. Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”

“… I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.”

“After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”

“There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.”

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”

“Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?”

“I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.”

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”

“The future happens. No matter how much we scream.”

“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”

“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.”

“These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.”

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”

“You are unnerving the hell out of me, Valkyrie."
"oh" she frowned, petting her bat fitfully " I must have misread the future for the past." she shrugged. "It happens.”

“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”

“The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.”

“There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.”

“He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chickenshit, slimy little bastard… with a bright future in politics.”

“I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.”

“Sometimes, Ms. Lane,” he said, “one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never
an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims.
Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

“Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.”

“I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night.

Then he’d whispered. “And you’re not even wearing Spanx.”

“But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.”

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

“Who do you love?
It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing.
Who do you love?”

“Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.”

“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”

“Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”

“For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.”

“Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.”

“There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference
.. Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it.”

“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future”

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

“Oh God, without them [libraries], what have we? We have no past and we have no future.”

“The past does not equal the future.”

“I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past, and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.”

“Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

“No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.”

“They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!”

“One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours. When”

“Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?”

“It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.”

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”

“And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?”

“Plans let past drives the future.”

“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

“Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.”

“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time…
… why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”

“I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.”

“What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it.”

“Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passionthe woods.”

“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”

“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”

“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.”

“The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”

“The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.”

“For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain… It just won't be the same.”

“Time keeps on… slippin'… slippin'… slippin' into the future.”

“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”

“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”

“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”

“Hey, Hot Stuff, Can’t wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it’s soon. You’re way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I’m out here waiting. Your Future”

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”

“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.”

“May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.”

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”