Quotes About Future

What a strange, wondrous thing, music. At last the chattering mind is silenced. No past to regret, to future to worry about, no more frantic knitting of words and thoughts. Only a beautiful, soaring nonsense.

But she is not looking down, but looking up maybe, some kind of fortune teller who can read futures in passing dark clouds.

Les vieux, des gens d'une autre époque mis dans le futur.

Quiero que nos abramos paso a través de nuestro destino y que flotemos sobre las aguas. El mañana siempre se nos escapa.

Patagonia's image is a human voice. It expresses the joy of people who love the world, who are passionate about their beliefs, and who want to influence the future. It is not processed; it won't compromise its humanity. This means that it will offend, and it will inspire.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

For he is in a past-tense, future-perfect kind of mood.

But he had underestimated the strangeness of talking about the future of his life with someone for whom the future still seemed unbounded: a pleasure palace of choices, with infinite doors, in which only a fool would spend his time trapped in one room.

We were the first generation to have, in our own homes, the means to re- and forward-wind reality: even very small children could press their fingers against those clunky buttons and see what-has-been become what-is or what-will-be.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

I sometimes had fears that at some point, not many years in the future, we would converge upon the exact same age.

I thought of that William Gibson quote: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed yet.

In a vision, Irie has seen a time, a time not far from now, when roots won't matter any more because they can't because they mustn't because they're too long and they're too tortuous and they're just buried too damn deep. She looks forward to it.

Well, maybe I use the wrong word in English. I mean that for Lamin the future is as certain as the past.

what was that horrible late twentieth-century tautology? Proactive. More proactive in the face of the future.

Maybe I put it wrong, I'm not a philosopher. To me it means something simple, like to say the future is already there, waiting for you. Why not wait, see what it brings?

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

O dor picioarele È™i trebuie s? se aÈ™eze, dar cafenelele ticsite o sperie, tot ce era pl?cut ziua a devenit amenin??tor noaptea, È™i ea coteÈ™te de pe strada principal? pe o strad? l?turalnic? È™i intr? într-una dintre curÈ›i, trebuie s? g?seasc? un ad?post, ea nu aparÈ›ine acestui loc, e înc?rcat? de jalea trecutului È™i de spaima de viitor, exact ca oraÈ™ul ei de baÈ™tin?.

A avut ea vreodat? ceva în afar? de prezent? se întreb?, dar a refuzat mereu s? se lase în voia prezentului, a încercat s?-l st?pâneasc?, cu mesajele ei de directoare, cu toate planurile pe care le-a f?cut, È™i acum prezentul îi spune: Eu nu sunt un ecou al amintirilor din trecut, nu sunt o punte spre planuri de viitor, eu sunt tot ce ai, chintesenÈ›a existenÈ›ei tale, ai încredere în mine fiindc? n-ai de ales.

What is done with one's vision of the past has enormous implications for how present realities are handled and the quality of idealism that can be applied to shaping the future.

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was.

The devouring force of the future leered at him at unexpected moments. Then too his daily self seemed to be wearing thin, and the past seeped thru and mastered him for increasingly longer periods.

Next month and next year were other times. No need to mix them up with the present.