Quotes About Future

Tú y yo tenemos más ayer que nadie. Necesitamos alguna suerte de mañana.

Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. And unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. I prefer not to adjust to my environment. I refuse the prison of "I" and choose the open spaces of "we.

He didn't mean it. It happened before he was through. She'd stepped away from him to pick flowers, returned, and at the sound of her footsteps behind him, he'd turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habit - this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.

If scientific language is about longer individual life in exchange for an ethical one; if political agenda is the xenophobic protection of a few of our families against the catastrophic others; if religious language is discredited as contempt for the nonreligious; if secular language bridles in fear of the sacred; if market language is merely an excuse for inciting greed; if the future of knowledge is not wisdom but "upgrade," where might we look for humanity's own future?

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.

Je me lèverai demain. extrait de la nouvelle Temps de Blues

Pish-posh, just doing my lot for the future of the world, you know. I'll sign off by saying, you know where to find me...

The future ours for a while to hold, with its heaviness— and hope moving from one location to another like the holy ghost that it is.

Van Laar wasn't a climate change denier, nor did he talk defensively of the United States' appetite for oil. Rather, he confessed, "I don't give much of a fuck, and nobody I know does, either, because this industry is giving me a future, even if it's a short one and we're all about to toast together.

Silence over Europe's recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future.

A social democracy of fear is something to fight for. To abandon the labors of a century is to betray those who came before us as well as generations yet to come. It would be pleasing—but misleading—to report that social democracy, or something like it, represents the future that we would paint for ourselves in an ideal world. It does not even represent the ideal past. But among the options available to us in the present, it is better than anything else to hand.

If social democracy has a future, it will be as a social democracy of fear.

In a popular Soviet-era joke, a listener calls up 'Armenian Radio' with a question: 'Is it possible', he asks, 'to foretell the future?' Answer: 'Yes, no problem. We know exactly what the future will be. Our problem is with the past: that keeps changing'. So

Today's schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job.

Silence over Europe's recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future. Today - in the wake of painful public debates in almost every other European country - it seems somehow fitting (and in any case unavoidable) that Germans, too, should at last feel able openly to question the canons of well intentioned official memory.

Nonetheless, he was sensitive not just to the need for countercyclical economic policies to head off future depression, but also to the prudential virtues of 'the social security state'.

Nietzsche's genealogical investigations do not undermine all values and all modes of evaluation equally. There are past tendencies, as well as present ones ... that Nietzsche esteems highly, and it is out of these estimations that his own ideal of the future emerges.

married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. "I have my own fossils

We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.

Was it so very obvious that I was not married? Of course it was. For one thing, I had no husband with me, looking after and indulging me. But there was something else about married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable.

Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past.

Brillat-Savarin noted two features that distinguish man from beast: 1. Fear of the future. 2. Desire for fermented liquors.

Je rêvai, non d'une ville figée, mais de la ville à venir.

He knew that to allow those actions to go on unchecked could allow future generations to keep falling and there might never be any correction.