Quotes About Future

I thought of the places I would be leaving, of what they were and what they could become. I pictured trees returning to the bare slopes, fish and whales returning to the bay. I thought of what my children and grandchildren might find here, and of how those who worked the land and sea might prosper if this wild vision were to be realized.

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

I'm not being pessimistic at all. I think God will eventually destroy this technological civilization. I'm very optimistic about that.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

No man can say with certainty what the future may hold. But perhaps, in knowing what has already transpired, we can all do our part to avoid the mistakes of our forebears, to emulate their successes, and to create a world more harmonious for our children and their children, for generations to come.

Some lights cast more than one shadow. Stand before nightfall and you'll see for yourself. The flames shift and dance, never still. The shadows grow tall and short, and every man casts a dozen. Some are fainter than others, that's all. Well, men cast shadows across the future, as well. One shadow or many." - Stannis

Maester Luwin says there's nothing in dreams that a man need fear.' 'There is,' said Jojen. 'What?' 'The past. The future. The truth." - Bran & Jojen

It was the end of the world. And we are going beyond it.

That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.

Some lights cast more than one shadow. Stand before the nightfire and you'll see for yourself. The flames shift and dance, never still. The shadows grow tall and short, and every man casts a dozen. Some are fainter than others, that's all. Well, men cast their shadows across the future as well. One shadow or many.

Can our morrows be foretold? Your Grace might ask instead should our morrows be foretold? And to that I should answer no. Some doors are best left closed. See that you close mine as you leave.

Bad dreams never come true. The both of them had been so young, that had sounded almost wise.

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

Can our morrows be foretold?" he repeated slowly. "Mayhaps. There are certain spells in the old books … but Your Grace might ask instead, 'Should our morrows be foretold?

How time seemed to blur and slow and even stop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even your body.

Luwin mester azt mondja, nincs semmi az álmokban, amit?l félni kellene. – Van – mondta Jojen. – Mi? – A múlt. A jöv?. Az igazság.

The man who became of his understanding of the laws of wealth, acquireth a growing surplus, should give thought to those future days. He should plan certain investments or provisions that may endure safely for many years, yet will be available when the time arrives which he has so wisely anticipated.

There was no other alternative than to seek his future among the Caucasians with whom he now rightfully belonged.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.