Quotes About Future

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

I am optimistic that things will fall into place, and one day I'll be sitting in New York City with correct bus fare in my pocket.

When you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.

We're not pessimists, exactly, but in late middle age, when you envision your life ten years down the line, you're more likely to see a bedpan than a Tony Award.

You kids might think you're close, but just wait until your father and I are gone, and you're left to divide up our property.

You tell yourself that if you traveled alone to Europe this summer, you could surely do the same thing next year, and the year after that. Of course you don't, though, and the next thing you know you're an aging, unemployed elf so desperate for love you spend your evening mooning over a straight alcoholic.

We've gotten ourselves a mortgage broker named Marcus Paisley, a man we obviously chose for his name. Hugh spoke to him yesterday morning and we spent the rest of the day imagining future calls. "I'm starting to see a pattern here, Paisley, and I don't like it.

he's very good to old people, a group that in the not-too-distant future will include me.

When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with when we grew up.

David Sosnowski

When good-enough software is best [You95], you can discipline yourself to write software that's good enough—good enough for your users, for future maintainers, for your own peace of mind.

Mis queridos niños carecen de imaginación, el único futuro que conciben es idéntico al pasado

It is not well to forget the past," Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical.

If you have seen my YouTube documentary that was the genesis for this book entitled The 2012 Enigma,1 my Web site, Divine Cosmos,2 or some of my television appearances, you probably know I do not believe our future is depressing, terrifying or cataclysmic.

Marry her right away. Tomorrow, if you want. You don't know how much time you get with someone, so you might as well start right away.

We will remember, but we will also proceed forward, as we always have.

Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it.

We must have our goals, our dreams, and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

Don't look back, something may be gaining on you.

people move in the hope of a better life