Quotes About Future

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobi?nija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budu?nostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.

Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow…

The future is a thing to be shaped, Scytale said. Hold that thought, Princess.

to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that." Jessica

Why can't you free him?' 'Because he thinks my memories are his key to freedom. He thinks I am building our future out of our past.' 'Isn't that always the way of it, Leto?' 'No, dear Hwi.' 'Then how is it?' 'Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins?

În ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe oameni, întrebarea este nu cîÅ£i pot supravieÅ£ui în cadrul sistemului, ci ce fel de existen?? va fi posibil? pentru cei ce vor supravieÅ£ui.

Every aspect of surrounding events fitted a present which paralyzed him. He felt chained to a future which, exposed too often, had locked onto him like a greedy succubus. Tight dryness clogged his throat. Had he followed the witchcall of his own oracle, he wondered, until it'd spilled him into a merciless present.

Ljudi koji u proro?anstvu traže budu?nost zapravo žele znati kakva ?e biti cijena kitovog krzna idu?e godine ili nešto sli?no banalno. Nitko stvarno ne želi imati život predvidiv u svakom trenutku.

la predicción es una consecuencia natural del oleaje del presente

I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present, and a waste to live in the future.

The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those things who come after.

I see in the future what I've seen in the past.

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today." "Then I'll accept that help and stay until

Leave absolute knowledge of the future to those moments of déjà vu which any human may experience. I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies.

Necessary rules and laws keep you from adapting. Inevitably, everything comes crashing down. It's like bankers thinking they buy the future. 'Power in my time! To hell with my descendants!'" "What are descendants doing for me?

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.