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Quotes About Future

And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
~ Salman Rushdie
To be thin-skinned, far-sighted, and loose-tongued," he said, "is to feel too sharply, see too clearly, speak too freely. It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable, to understand its mutability when it thinks itself immutable, to sense what's coming before others sense it, to know that the barbarian future is tearing down the gates of the present while others cling to the decadent, hollow past. If
~ Salman Rushdie
London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself and wallowed, accordingly, in the impotence of its selfish, angry present of masks and parodies, stifled and twisted by the insupportable, unrejected burden of its past, staring into the bleakness of its impoverished future.
~ Salman Rushdie
Oh, alas, alas for his debauched children, flesh of his flesh, heir to all his failings and none of his strenghts!... was it hard to judge a ten-year-old boy in this way? Yes, of course it was, but these were not boys. They were little gods, the despots of the future: born, unfortunately, to rule. He loved them. They would betray him. They were the lights of his life. They would come for him while he slept. The little assfuckers. He was waiting for their moves.
~ Salman Rushdie
El futuro, a pesar de que no era más que un tenue resplandor envuelto en un interrogante, no se dejaba eclipsar por el pasado; incluso cuando la muerte avanza hacia el centro del escenario, la vida sigue luchando por la igualdad de derechos.
~ Salman Rushdie
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
~ Sam Harris
If being prepared for death entails knowing when and where it will happen, the odds are you will not be prepared. Not only are you bound to die and leave this world; you are bound to leave it in such a precipitate fashion that the present significance of anything ? your relationships, your plans for the future, your hobbies, your possessions ? will appear to have been totally illusory.
~ Sam Harris
It seems that if our species ever eradicates itself through war, it will not be because it was written in the stars but because it was written in our books; it is what we do with words like 'God' and 'paradise' and ''sin' in the present that will determine our future.
~ Sam Harris
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.
~ Roger Clemens
I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
~ Bobby Bowden
Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.
~ Troy Vincent
As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.
~ Robin Farina
In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.
~ Shwayze
This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.
~ Penny Chenery Secretariat
You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on And face life even when it seems all hopes gone Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title You my future my happiness my heart my idol
~ Fat Joe
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
~ Li Ka-shing
I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.
~ Anne Sexton
I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.
~ Ian Somerhalder
I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.
~ Carole M. Stephens
I will not live the rest of my life in regret.
~ Penny Chenery Secretariat
May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.
~ Pope Francis
The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward.
~ Pope Francis
I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
~ Jodi Picoult, The Pact