Quotes About Future

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Let not defeatists tell us that it is too late. It will never be earlier. Tomorrow will be later than today.

First, the behavior should not follow directly from present needs and desires. Second, it should prepare the individual for a future situation in a different context than the current one. The girl needed a spoon not in bed, but at the chocolate pudding party she expected in her dream.11

Such cases deserve attention since they show that apes do not have to be prompted by experimental conditions concocted by us humans to plan for the future. They do so of their own accord.

New" national, international, or global emergences create an unsettling sense of transition, as if history is at a turning point; and it is in such incubational moments—Antonio Gramsci's word for the perceived "newness" of change—that we experience the palimpsestical imprints of past, present, and future in peculiarly contemporary figures of time and meaning.

The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

All future events are merely a reproduction of the first moment of Love, giving birth to itself from an inner womb that continuously fertilizes itself. Love carries in itself its everlasting renewed beginning.

If you love, he wrote, or wish to love, do not dream. from "In Memory of the Future

Even if History doesn't agree, we must also believe in the future in spite of the past, and in God in spite of his absence, or life wouldn't be worth the trouble of living.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

2002 report on Competing for Service from the Healthcare Advisory Board, this topic heads the list as the most requested topic for future reports. Their 1998 Report on Service Excellence was their all-time best-seller.

A friend of mine was in a taxi in Washington, D.C., going slowly past the National Archives, when he noticed the words on the cornerstone of the building: "The past is prologue." He read them out loud to the taxi driver and said, "What do you think that means, 'The past is prologue'?" The taxi driver said, "I think it means, 'Man, you ain't seen nothin' yet!

There are no standards and no possible victories except the joy you are living while dancing your run. You are not running for some future reward-the real reward is now!

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

that the main responsibility of disciples as they head into the future is to be doctrinally careful to be attentive only to Jesus Christ and not to be "taken in" by flashy but false predictors and their plausible but false predictions of times, periods, and

One day, maybe not too long from now, the Russian empire will begin to crack. One day soon, the Romanians

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.

It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imagination.