Quotes About Future

While our expectations for the future are all that really keep us going, the failure of those expectations is the source of all our sadness.

God created man with eyes in the front, not the back of the head, and that means we've got to think about what's to come, not what has been.

I have nowhere to return to. It's like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that's alien to me and doesn't belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future is doubtful, everything yet to come is barely sketched and uncertain, like a mirage that can be destroyed by the slightest twitch of the air.

Man harnesses his suffering to time. He suffers as a result of the past and extends his suffering into the future. In this way he creates despair.

To be impatient means never really living, being always in the future, in what will happen, but which is after all not yet here. Do not impatient people resemble spirits who are never here in this place, and now, in this very moment, but rather sticking their heads out of life like those wanderers who supposedly, when they found themselves at the end of the world, just looked onward, beyond the horizon? What did they see there? What is it that an impatient person hopes to glimpse?

zaczynam wychodzi? z momentu "teraz" i stawa? ju? jedn? nog? w momencie "potem".

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover

Crookes was talking about fixing a couple of million tonnes of nitrogen a year to assure Europe's wheat supplies for the foreseeable future. Today industry fixes over a hundred million tonnes a year, comfortably more than all the Earth's nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria put together.

The fear of bad outcomes motivates both climate activists and their foes, but the precise details don't matter. Both sides see themselves as averting a future that they don't like more than creating one that they do.

It is obvious,' wrote Vogt, 'that fifty years hence the world cannot support three billion people at any but coolie standards

There is another future quite different from it, which is the future we imagine, prompted by fears or hopes or lazy presumptions of regularity. Such projected futures are easy enough to construct in imagination, but ontologically they are shallow; they make little claim on our belief — even though they often market themselves at astonishingly high prices!

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Los pueblos que se apoyan sobre tumbas gloriosas son los que mejor se preparan para el porvenir",

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.