Quotes About Future

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

Can you see the future, Kerbouchard? Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.

For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.

There was something her father had said. "We do not own the land, Angie. We hold it in trust for tomorrow. We take our living from it, but we must leave it rich for your son and for his sons and for all of those who shall follow.

That was always the trouble…everything a man wanted to do lay ahead of him.

Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in der man glaubt, dass alles zu Ende ist. Das wird der Anfang sein.

In reliving the old days and replaying the old games, he avoided a hard look at whatever future might lay ahead of him.

Nothing in his life had given him confidence in his hold upon the future. All he had learned indicated that one lived by avoiding trouble, or if it could not be avoided, seeing it first.

the town of Sentinel was becoming vital, acquiring a consciousness of the future, a sense of belonging. A strong land growing, a land which would give birth to strong sons who could build and plant and harvest. Fitz

In modern societies, the reproduction of custom is no longer understood to be one of the chief purposes of existence, and the ends of life are not thought to be given; they are thought to be discovered or created. Individuals are not expected to follow the life path of their parents, and the future of the society is not thought to be dictated entirely by its past.

He's not my dad," Kaira said. "Just because he married my— As soon as I turn eighteen I'm firing his ass! Then I'll call you.

In a few years, Camp Greenlake will be a girl scout camp.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.

Don't you wish you could take a look forward and see where we shall all be then? I do," returned Laurie. "I think not, for I might see something sad, and everyone looks so happy now

Her heart sunk within her, for the shadow of his presence seemed to fall darkly over all her future.

What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.

Our friends do feel that we have not received fair treatment from the Republican Party, but we expect better things in the future.

he is coming into the office to see if he is fit to go into the firm later on, which I hope and trust he will be.

he was betting the future of his firm on one roll of the dice.

He added the important caveat that the war had been "a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.

The world lies all before us.

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