Quotes About Future

The ages of life can be evoked independently from the progression that advancing age implies, by means of anticipation, which lays out a future, or memory, which recreates the past, and in any case, by letting the imagination play with time.

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

The important thing is to make a decision," he said. "Make what decision?" "One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like.

Your future depends on your choices, on your will. It belongs to you.

Predictions are difficult to make, particularly when they concern the future." —Pierre Dac

Ce qui est important, c'est de prendre une décision, affirma-t-il. - Quelle décision ? - Celle qui vous permettra de vivre au présent au lieu de vous demander de quoi sera constitué l'avenir.

Ton avenir est fait de choix qui t'appartiennent.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

In the final analysis, therefore, the tomb of Edward I may stand, like the unfinished castle at Caernarfon, not only as a monument to the past, but also as a warning to the future: a final reminder of the power of myth to shape men's minds and motives, and thus to alter the fate of nations.

The boy's name was Ecgfrith, and it was upon him that his father's plans for the future depended.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Warum es den Menschen so schwer fällt, glücklich zu sein? Weil sie die Vergangenheit besser sehen als sie war, die Gegenwart schlechter als sie ist und die Zukunft rosiger als sie sein wird.

Nos jours ne sont beaux que par leur lendemain.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation—that is, in the past or in the future.

And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often comes to life for us only when the future has come and gone - and not only the past which we discover after the event but the past which we have long kept stored within ourselves and suddenly learn how to interpret.

It is not enough in love, as in everyday life, to fear only the future: one must fear the past, which often becomes real to us only after the future, and I am not simply speaking of the past about which we learn only after the event, but of the one we have carried within us for many years, and which we only now learn to read.

How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification, But his desire to know the truth was stronger, and seemed to him nobler than his desire for her.

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