Quotes About Future

Anyway, I gave her the ring. We were serious at the time. Words were spoken, promises made, unborn children were imagined and named! We were twenty-two years old. We get engaged, everything is fine, and then—well, a decade goes by.

Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future.

I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.

And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin piña colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane—

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?

If you break up with Alec, you will not only be losing one stone cold fox, but a family of foxes. I will pass down the word to my children's children. No Lightwood is ever going to so much as wink at you in a bar. Think about that. Think about being Lightwoodless and lonely five hundred years from now, in a sad and chilly nightclub on the moon.

It does no one any good to look backward for too long and forget that the future lies ahead.

I am glad," he said. "They will be able to take care of each other when I am gone, or at least I can hope for it. He says she does not love him, but—surely she will come to love him in time. Will is easy to love, and he has given her his whole heart. I can see it. I hope she will not break it.

She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

Glorifying the pioneers was a way to justify what had been done in the past and perhaps ease anxieties about the future—the solidity of stone and metal suggesting that the sons and daughters of the pioneers would continue to prevail.

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.

You will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

Acquiring preemptive knowledge about emerging technologies is the best way to ensure that we have a say in the making of our future.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Heritage does not equal destiny.