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Quotes About Future

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
~ Ambrose Bierce
IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
~ Ambrose Bierce
BRIDE, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Betia kissed my forehead. I won't leave unless you ask me to. I- Her lips touched mine chastely. The future will come. I will be there, if you want me.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.
~ Aminatta Forna
He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere past this point, but he cannot. There is nothing to do but to keep on existing, in this exact time and place. This is what hell must be like. Waiting without knowing. Not hell, but purgatory. Worse than hell.
~ Aminatta Forna
You have to pick your moment. He'd always said so. Told everyone who'd listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn and face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future stronger for it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
No one cares about the past any more," he whispered. "They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Comes to be everything reminds you of something past. Somewhere past. Someone. Yourself, maybe, how you were. The now gets fainter and the past more and more real. The future worn down to but a stub.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Threats for tomorrow don't cut very deep when today is so damn threatening.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Either you are a part of my future, or a relic of the past.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Comes to be everything reminds you of something past. Somewhere past. Someone. Yourself, maybe, how you were. The now gets fainter and the past more and more real. The future worn down to but a stub.' Lamb
~ Joe Abercrombie
never worry about what has been done, only about what will be.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Stour was the future of the North. Always had been. And with all those old warriors lying slaughtered on the bloody floor of the hall, it seemed the future had come early.
~ Joe Abercrombie
They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
~ Joe Baca
Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
~ Joe Baca
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
~ Joe Biden
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
~ Joe Biden
I didn't want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I wasn't interested in the people who shaped the future. I was more interested in people who were shaped by the future. People who were products of their environment.
~ Joe Clifford Faust
Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place we were born? Are our aspirations our home? Maybe we are from that place to which we're bound, and that's why desire hurts so much, this longing to find a place to rest, to get home. We're not from the past, but the future.
~ Joe Coomer