Quotes About Future

Lincoln's political grammar always gravitated to the future tense.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

If we're free to dare – and we are – if we're free to give – and we are – then we're free to shape the future and have within our grasp all that we dream the future will be.

Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Psychics can see the color of time it's blue.

The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and boundless confidence in their religion to take care of the future. The result was an ecological disaster leading to a population crash…. Do we have to repeat the experiment on [a] grand scale?… Is the human personality always the same as that of the person who felled the last tree?

Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: The mystery of mysteries, he wrote, is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation.

The reform that is needed is not anti-capitalist, anti-American, or even deep environmentalist; it is simply the transition from short-term to long-term thinking.

She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.

Adán marchaba llorando, y mirando para atrás un paraíso perdido que no va a recuperar, y Eva pensaba en la historia que acaba de empezar.

most of what Man does, moment to moment, is for his imagined future, for the coming time, in which he will be happier than in time present.

recent issue of the weekly magazine The Economist (2 June 2012) on 'Morals and the machine' raises some pertinent issues about the degree of autonomy reached by robots and calls for society to develop new rules to manage them.

Olennaista ei enää ole se, keitä olemme, vaan millaisiksi tahdomme tulla.

There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Quando o Pereba chegou, eu enchi os copos e disse, que o próximo ano seja melhor. Feliz Ano Novo.

If we're not wanting, we're waiting. Waiting for what, we don't know, but something and it's going to happen soon.

I cannot let things remain as they are, because then I would not be free. If I cease to act because I fear the future, then I create a worse enslavement for myself. That much I know. While my people are not free, I am not free. If the freedom and justice I seek loose destruction upon the earth, then I accept that responsibility, but it seems to me that the real responsibility must be borne by those who keep me from my freedom. I must act!

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:- That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins From The Gods of the Copybook Headings

What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.

because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in;