Quotes About Future

Neuroti?ar je osoba koja brine zbog ne?ega što se nije dogodilo u prošlosti. On nije kao mi, normalni ljudi, koji brinemo zbog ne?ega što se ne?e dogoditi u budu?nosti.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

If there is anything I can do about the future, right now, I shall do it. Then I'm going to just leave it alone and settle down to enjoy the present moment, because all the experience of my life has shown me that I can only cope with things when they are present, not before they occur. And that the present always gives me the resources and the energy I need to deal with them.

Cuarto: siempre que te sientas inseguro acerca de lo que puede depararte el futuro, limítate simplemente a recordar que en los últimos seis o doce meses has estado igualmente inseguro acerca de los acontecimientos que habrían de producirse; y que cuando, finalmente, éstos se produjeron, te las arreglaste para dominarlos de un modo u otro, gracias a las energías

Si hay algo que pueda hacer ahora con respecto a mi futuro, lo haré. Fuera de eso, me limitaré a dejarle que siga su curso y me dedicaré a disfrutar del momento presente, porque la experiencia me ha enseñado que sólo puedo hacer frente a las cosas cuando éstas se presentan, no antes de que ocurran, y que el presente me proporciona siempre los recursos y la energía necesarios para afrontarlas».

Or in the future, dreading possible calamities and unpleasantnesses, anticipating future joys, dreaming of future events.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.

Ojalá la vida fuera como una novela de Julio Verne y uno pudiera pasar las páginas cuando lo necesita para saber lo que va a suceder más adelante.

This is not real suffering, she tells herself. this is only a matter of reprogramming her picture of the future. Of understanding that the line of descendancy is not continuous but arbitrary.

had felt time settle over itself, imbricate and fix into place the vertigo of future aligning with the present.

The future waited for him to keep his appointment.

Thermal scanners? Laser sights? Above the junipers, a trio of blue lights hover: some kind of remote-controlled drone. These, the creatures we have chosen to repopulate the earth.

Then it resumes, the twin wands of its horns extending, dragging its whorled shell atop the sled of its body. What do you seek, little snail? Do you live only in this one moment, or do you worry like Professor Aronnax for your future?

Se pelo menos a vida fosse como um romance de Júlio Verne... e você pudesse passar as páginas para a frente, quando precisasse, para descobrir o que estava para acontecer.

Casi todas las especies que han existido alguna vez se han extinguido en el presente. No hay ningún motivo para pensar que con la raza humana vaya a ocurrir algo distinto.

as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.

They want to hear that their kids will take over their world. No one wants to hear that the future is already determined. Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.

start today so that everything works out tomorrow

While external factors may influence our actions, they cannot control them, for that would be to negate free will. To say "what will be, will be" is not to imply that the future is predetermined.

It would have been intended as a broad framework to guide future military activity, if not as a precisely worked-out blueprint.

Tiberius and Drusus decided to prevent a future Alpine revolt by a simple but brutal means: mass deportations

Either the future is subject to chance—in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other—or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it." --Quintus Tullius Cicero