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Quotes About Future

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.
~ Clarence Darrow
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
~ Unknown
Nothing happened if she kept waiting for what was going to happen .
~ Clarice Lispector
The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.
~ Clarice Lispector
De toekomst had tenminste het voordeel niet het heden te zijn, wat slecht is kan altijd beter worden.
~ Clarice Lispector
And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?
~ Clarice Lispector
From my own flaw I had created a future good.
~ Clarice Lispector
For the present has no hope, and the present has no future: the future will be exactly once again present.
~ Clarice Lispector
Hope is a child not yet born, only promised, and that bruises.
~ Clarice Lispector
Já me parece sinceramente não pertencer mais a nenhum lugar, tenho medo disso. Mas vamos deixar o futuro ao futuro.
~ Clarice Lispector
Pois a actualidade não tem esperança, e a actualidade não tem futuro: o futuro será exactamente de novo uma actualidade.
~ Clarice Lispector
Nunca a vida foi tão atual como hoje: por um triz é o futuro
~ Clarice Lispector
la esperanza no existe, porque ella no es ya un futuro aplazado, es hoy.
~ Clarice Lispector
Soy un ser concomitante: reúno en mí el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, el tiempo que late en el tiempo de los relojes.
~ Clarice Lispector
Qué viene después de la felicidad?
~ Clarice Lispector
I am always remote from myself, I am unreachable to myself just as a star is unreachable to me. I contort myself to be able to touch the present time that surrounds me, but I remain remote in relation to this very instant itself. The future, God help me, is closer to me than the present instant.
~ Clarice Lispector
Rather than viewing and treating students who want to do something new as troublemakers who need to be fixed, we should recognize that they will be the engines of improvements in our standard of living. Point of fact, they always have been. To
~ Unknown
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Lo único que no está marcado, decía Robert, es qué hará cada persona después de pasar por esa circunstancia.
~ Unknown
What I know is that an inchoate desire for a future other than the one that seems to be forming our days brings me to a seat around any tale to lean forward, to hear, to respond, to await response from any other.
~ Claudia Rankine
Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment to the full, not goading oneself madly into burning it up fast and using it with a view to an all too imminent future, thus destroying it in the hope that life -- the whole of life -- may pass swiftly.
~ Claudio Magris
One does not need to be able to know the future; one only needs to be conversant with the past in order to guide the present, and the future will attend to itself
~ Claudio Sanchez
The conditions that created the modern American public library are still relevant to any discussion about contemporary and future issues facing those who care about libraries, specifically trustees. To serve as a trustee of a public library places a citizen on an even higher ground shaped by the better part of modern American history. To be a trustee of a public library places one very close to major transformations in American life and culture.
~ Unknown
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.
~ Clement Mok