Quotes About Future

This was a people's war. All the people had a stake in it. All the people had an obligation to put their hearts and wealth and blood into it. All would find their futures indelibly shaped by it.

the splendid future of an Independent South." "Stimulate domestic manufacturing & local commerce," said Davis. Thus Charleston and New Orleans would vie with Boston and New York as commercial centers. Though Davis was only reiterating his oft-expressed wish for economic

That which is possible is inevitable.

A great future doesn't require a great past.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run and often in the short one the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Two-thirds of 2001 is realistic hardware and technology to establish background for the metaphysical, philosophical, and religious meanings later.

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.

As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned in favor of reconsidering his resolution against Fulkerson's offer.

Ello no supone negar que muchos agravios nacionalistas sean genuinos; se trata simplemente de que los líderes nacionalistas parecen provocar tales agravios a expensas del futuro desarrollo económico.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

One thing the young were sure of; they would never again place their fate in the hands of an older generation.

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

There are two reasons why man should not worry, either one of which must operate in every instance. First, because he cannot prevent the results he fears. Second, because he can prevent them. If he be powerless to avert the blow, he needs perfect mental concentration to meet it bravely, to lighten its force, to get what salvage he can from the wreck, to sustain his strength at this time when he must plan a new future.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

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.

The man who has capital has secured his future, won leisure which he can employ in winning secondary objects of necessity and advantage, and emancipated himself from those things in life which are gross and belittling. The

The future is so "intrinsically uncertain" that investors should focus heavily on avoiding permanent losses and building "a portfolio that can endure various states of the world.