Quotes About Future

For starters," she said, "you acknowledge that stimulate is a synonym for stealing from the future.

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?

People count too long on the oblivion of children.

There is nothing boring about the prospect of extinction.

Even this far inland, New Jersey was still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, which in its time, a few years back, had been called the storm of the century. How foolish it seemed now to label anything "of the century." This one was still a teenager with an anger-management problem and a long future ahead.

Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You'll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that's the thing. To make it good.

Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them.

Tig would have fit on that plane just fine. Tig, Art, Takis, these anomalous, scrappy survivors, might be the lucky ones. They ate less and took up less space: the humans of the future.

All hope and future lost in a day.

because anything to do with improving the life of a child is on the bottom.

I wasn't keeping to any road, I was running, forgetting what lay behind and always looking ahead for the perfect home, where trains never wrecked and hearts never broke, where no one you loved ever died.

to her days and made every hour of punishing toil totally irrelevant. It was this blind belief, this absolute faith in herself and her future, that often put a lively spring into her step, brought an occasional smile to her normally solemn young face, and sustained her at all times.

She had been too excited to sleep deeply—from killing Barnett, of course, but even more because of everything that was going to happen next.

The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once wrote that it was impossible for his country and the United States to have a productive conversation. Mexico, he said, is so burdened by its past it cannot easily imagine a future. The United States, he said, is so intent on imagining its future it isn't troubled by rewriting its past to serve that future.

Science Fiction is that form of literature which deals with the effect of technological change in an imagined future, an alternative present or a reconceived history.

Now students are required to make choices about education that may affect them for the rest of their lives. And they are forced to make these choices at a point in their intellectual development when they may lack the resources to make them intelligently.

From the perspective of a model of decision making that is future oriented, being sensitive to sunk costs is a mistake.

simply by being aware of the process we can anticipate its effects, and therefore be less disappointed when it comes. This means that when we are making decisions, we should think about how each of the options will feel not just tomorrow, but months or even years later.

The other advantage of making the author a famous religious figure of the past is that such books often purport to tell the future.

Making these "predictions" of the future was relatively easy when the real author was living after the events he "predicted.

Ezekiel 37, a passage frequently misread by people who think the prophet is discussing the future resurrection of individuals at the end of time. He is not. He is explicitly referring to the restoration of the nation of Judah after its destruction.

The expectation that the End Is Near has never done anyone much good, except perhaps the prophecy authors who have made fame and fortune writing about it.

All I know is what's past is past, and what's ahead is ahead. The second is ka, and takes care of itself.

the past is history, the future's a mystery