Quotes About Future

Asa had a sharp understanding of the future--that is, a time when this would be past. Time was rushing through and around him, he almost heard it whistling, and this awareness rounded the world somehow and made it sweet.

I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived. –The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

He caught me to him, his arms banded tight around me. His face pressed into my throat. Where do we go from here? I held him. Wherever this takes us. Together.

If you're going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me . Because I can't be rational when it comes to you. I'm crazy about you. Literally. I can't think about a future without you— it freaks me out.

Gideon was a man who'd lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he'd accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future I was afraid to imagine. I was so scared I'd only be setting myself up for a heartbreak I couldn't survive.

She can't change the past." "It's not the past she's thinking of." He set his hand briefly on my shoulder. "It's the future.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

Pero a veces el día siguiente no llega nunca, Pel. Algunas veces, lo único que tenemos es hoy

I've always seen white picket fences in your eyes when you look at me. I was positive I wasn't that guy. I was wrong. One of these days, when you're ready, I'll give that dream to you. And you're going to give me a gorgeous little girl or two with your dark curly hair and smiles that slay me.

Do not wait until life meets some inner criteria to seize the day, she whispered. I have learned that sometimes tomorrow never comes.

Si se paraba un momento a pensar, se sentiría aterrorizada por el futuro, pero ahí, en ese preciso momento... se encontraba en el cielo. -Dime que estás conmigo-le pidió ella. Aidan la besó en la boca con una ternura desgarradora. -Estoy contigo. Era sólo por ahora. Pero, por ahora, era suficiente

We're not going to let the past get in the way of what we have.

If you love her, I said, you'll love somebody else someday.

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday?at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere?the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

I'm never going to get married. You're crazy. Buddy brightened. You'll change your mind. No. My mind's made up.

If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. But the cold reasoning mass of gray entrail in my cranium which parrots, 'I think, therefore I am,' whispers that there is always the turning, the upgrade, the new slant. And so I wait.

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

You oughtn't to see this, Will muttered in my ear. You'll never want to have a baby if you do. They oughtn't to let women watch. It'll be the end of the human race.

We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door.

What do you have in mind after you graduate? I really don't know, I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.